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  • There plays out the sometimes amusing, sometimes overblown tale of a British code-breaker dispatched to Dublin to figure out whether subversives in neutral Ireland are in cahoots with the Germans.

    Solas Nua's first musical, the loopy 'Improbable Frequency' Peter Marks 2010

  • When war came, he was ideally trained, as a code-breaker and student of the Japanese people.

    A Stealth Attack on Enemy Secrets Tom Nagorski 2011

  • At long last: The Prime Minister has released a statement on the Second World War code-breaker, Alan Turing, recognising the 'appalling' way he was treated for being gay.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Nor did the signals intel and code-breaker teams widely considered the key factor turning the tide of that particular campaign. tomemos says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • It's the stuff of a wartime thriller: A code-breaker, stung by his failure to predict the bombing of Pearl Harbor, divines the enemy's plans seven months later, enabling one of the great American victories of World War II.

    A Stealth Attack on Enemy Secrets Tom Nagorski 2011

  • The life story of the wartime code-breaker Alan Turing is among those being used to tackle homophobia.

    Lessons on gay history cut homophobic bullying in north London school Jessica Shepherd 2010

  • Charles's children included Miriam Rothschild 1908-2005, a pioneering naturalist, entomologist and vegetarian, who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley, and who was the first woman to be a trustee of the British Museum.

    Great dynasties of the world: The Rothschilds 2011

  • Wake yourself up with this simple question: go off the autopilot, take off your grass-skirt, eating Zoolander-Zombie, throw on something a bit more civilized, say, a meditative hoodie of a Silicon Valley code-breaker busy self-reprogramming.

    Open Your Mind Before You Open Your Mouth 2010

  • Wake yourself up with this simple question: go off the autopilot, take off your grass-skirt, eating Zoolander-Zombie, throw on something a bit more civilized, say, a meditative hoodie of a Silicon Valley code-breaker busy self-reprogramming.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Open Your Mind Before You Open Your Mouth 2010

  • British media reports suggesting a spy-world connection to the gruesome death of U.K. code-breaker Gareth Williams are groundless, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

    U.S. officials: Gareth Williams death not spy-related 2010

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