At 05:28 PM 1/26/96 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

jim bell writes:

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(For the historically-impaired: Coventry was/is an English town (small city?) perhaps most famous from the Lady Godiva legend...but I digress... British found out, I guess through Ultra, that it was going to be bombed. Telling the inhabitants would have saved many lives, but (possibly) alerted the Germans that Enigma had been broken. British made the correct choice: Let the city get bombed without (much?) warning. The value of keeping the broken-ness of Ultra a secret far outweighed the value of Coventry.)

The current claim is that, in fact, there was no advance warning about Coventry and that the claims that there was are unsubstantiated.

Extremely odd! Why distribute the claim, if it were false?!? Hmmmmm..... And/or if the claim was falsely made by some non-governmental organization, why not an immediate and forceful denial? Color me confused.