indecipherables

Squads of girls must be specially trained to break agents 'indecipherables.

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Agents were making so many mistakes in their coding that breaking their indecipherables single-handed against the clock was like being the only doctor in a hospital full of terminal patients.

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His file of indecipherables was just about ready for its second volume, and he more than anyone would benefit from a simple system such as a one-time pad consisting entirely of letters.

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I put to him that indecipherables were a black plague and that there was only one feasible explanation for the Dutch agents 'immunity from it.

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Putting the code-groups of his seven indecipherables side by side with Boni's clear texts, I was about to start on a cryptographic jamboree to reconstruct whatever mistakes in coding Parsnip might have made when I remembered that his indecipherables had all been concerned with Intelligence matters.

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I said that Herr Giskes and his assistants must have decided that any signals organization which was stupid enough to use the poem-code wasn't likely to be bright enough to notice the absence of indecipherables and was even less likely to draw the proper conclusions from their absence.

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There was an essential piece of homework I had to do before trying to convince SOE of what the absence of indecipherables from Holland really meant.

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Unfortunately during one of these visits I was in the middle of explaining that the Free French were the only agents burdened with a secret code of which de Gaulle allowed us to know nothing, and that the strain of having to use two systems caused the agents to send an inordinate number of indecipherables in their British codes when Ozanne waddled in on a state visit.

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At the end of this dangerously long transmission he retransmitted Parsnip's five indecipherables in his own code.

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On 7 October Boni retransmitted the sixth and seventh of Parsnip's indecipherables as well as Parsnip's two indecipherables of 3 October.

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