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av stillen » 25 nov 2019 10:50
Vi verkar ha kört fast. Gubben med cigarren är Rodolphe Lemoine, född Rudolf Stahlman, lite frilansande i underrättelsebranschen. Lemoine blir "case officer" för partnern Hans-Tilo Schmidt. Den franske officeren är Gustave Bertrand.
"1931 8 November Hans Thilo Schmidt permits Rodolphe
Lemoine and Gustave Bertrand, his French spymasters, to
photograph the Enigma operating manuals which he has ‘borrowed’
from a safe in the German Defence Ministry Cipher Office.
8–10 December Bertrand delivers the photographs of the
Enigma manuals to the Polish General Staff’s Cipher Bureau
in Warsaw, after the French and British experts have
indicated that they cannot use them to break the Enigma
cipher.
19 December Schmidt hands over an Enigma settings list to
the French for the first time. Within days the list is sent to
the Polish Cipher Bureau in Warsaw. But even with these
documents, the Polish cryptographers cannot read the
Enigma messages transmitted by the German armed forces;
if they are to break to the code, they will have to reconstruct
the Enigma cipher machine itself.
1932 2–16 August Schmidt hands over two Enigma settings lists
to the French, for September and October 1932. Once again,
they are passed on to the Poles in Warsaw. These settings
will, eventually, help the Poles to break the code for the first
time.
December Marian Rejewski, the Polish cryptographer,
works out the wiring inside the Enigma cipher machine,
using the documents supplied by Hans Thilo Schmidt in
November 1931 and August 1932. This is the crucial
breakthrough which enables the Poles to break the code,
and to read Enigma messages transmitted by the German
armed forces. However, the French are to be kept in the
dark for the next six and a half years."
(from "Enigma: The Battle For The Code" by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore)
27/2 - 43 arresteras Lemoine i södra frankrike, 27/3 anger han Schmidt, som begår självmord 19/8.
Det senare är lite märkligt eftersom han är fängslad, oklart om av Abwher eller SD, kanske nån tyckte att det var bäst så?
Lemoine överlever kriget, förhörs av fransmännen och dör i Oktober -45.
Currahe nästa eller frågan fri.