Intelligence Insight No. 010

Bletchley Park

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🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

June 2020

This week we return for the second and final time to the 2018 launch of Dermot Turing’s book, X, Y and Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken. It’s a story of international cooperation, spanning many years and for the first time tells of how the French, British and Polish secret services came together to unravel the secrets of the Enigma machine.

At the launch Dermot was joined by Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac, the Curator of Heritage for the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and GCHQ Historian Tony Comer. To finish this episode we have highlights from the Q&A Session that all three joined, which ended the day.

But first we return to Dermot’s talk. In the last episode we left the Polish Codebreakers, enjoying life, living in a Chateau, working for the French. He now completes the story of what happened to them following the Allied landings in North Africa in late 1942 as the Germans rushed to occupy Vichy France.

Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2020

* Producers Note *

While we are still in these exceptional times, we will continue to produce these Intelligence Insight episodes, switching to one every two weeks from now. We are also looking forward to bringing you new episodes in our It Happened Here series as soon as we are able to. In the meantime, please follow Bletchley Park on social media and visit the website for the latest information on plans to safely reopen, thank you.

#BPark, #WW2, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma, @PolishEmbassyUK

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0:00.0	Top Secret for Senior Officer, immediate, decipher and pass to all relevant sections.
0:18.0	19th of June,
0:23.5	Intelligence Insight, number 010.
0:28.7	Welcome to this Bletchley Park Intelligence Insight.
0:32.7	This is Mark, the producer of the Blexley Park podcast.
0:35.6	While we are still in these exceptional times,
0:42.7	we'll continue to produce these Intelligence Insight episodes, but switching to one every two weeks from now.
0:49.3	We're also looking forward to bringing in your new episodes in our It Happened Here series as soon as we are able to.
0:54.8	In the meantime, please follow Blexley Park on social media and visit the website for the latest information on plans for when we can safely reopen.
0:58.7	Thank you.
0:59.9	Now, on to this week's show.
1:02.9	This week, we return for the second and final time to the 2018 launch of Dermot Touring's
1:08.4	book, X, Y and Z, The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken.
1:13.6	It's a story of international cooperation spanning many years and for the first time
1:18.2	tells of how the French, British and Polish secret services came together to unravel
1:24.4	the secrets of the Enigma machine.
1:27.1	At the launch, Dermot was joined by Natalie Jeanne Rufiak,
1:30.7	the curator of heritage for the French Ministry of the Armed Forces,
1:34.5	and GCHQ historian Tony Comer.
1:37.2	They both spoke about Dermott's research and the importance of the book.
1:41.5	To finish off the day, all three joined a panel Q&A session, and we'll bring
1:45.7	you some highlights from that to finish this episode. But first, we return to the second
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