bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204 wrote:
Another book with some insight into Bletchley Park is "Cloak and Gown" (I forget the author), about the relationship between Yale academics and the OSS, the WW2 predecessor to the CIA.
That's by Robin Winks. I have a copy, in hardback, that I found some years back in a used book store. Lots of good stuff about the central role Yale has played.
Among the various Yalies who went into the OSS was James Jesus Angleton, who spent a lot of time at Bletchley analyzing information that might be useful for US Army and covert OSS activities, and trying to support ...
A friend of mine, Buddy Diamond, developer of the "NFL Challenge" PC game of some years back, worked with James J. Angleton on a kind of "CIA Challenge" training game. I met Buddy at the 1988 Crypto conference, and he was the main reason I got invited to the Hackers Conference that year (and thereafter, as is the norm). Oh, he went to Yale, and this had a lot to do with the CIA getting in touch with him. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. Cypherpunks list: majordomo@toad.com with body message of only: subscribe cypherpunks. FAQ available at ftp.netcom.com in pub/tc/tcmay