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Stolen Enigma Machine Recovered In Style
glomph writes: "A priceless Enigma crypto device (only three exist) was stolen this spring
from a museum in the UK. The Sunday Times describe in fascinating detail how they fully recovered the item. Codewords hidden in the newspaper, buried video tapes, meetings in dark misty cemeteries and other cloak-n-dagger stuff were used. The Bad Guy was also nabbed. A must-read tale."
Didn't it get stolen from the Germans first? They're going to prosecute a man, for stealing something, that is itself, stolen. And people got killed when it was originally stolen. From what I know, it was stolen with no lives lost. Maybe they're mad because he was able to accomplish the theft in a more efficient manner.
Someone call Alanis.
a 1971 UN agreement says anything stolen as war booty before 1971 is finders keepers. and the country that stole it can keep it. Same thing as the Rosetta Stone.. its from Egypt.. Egypt wants it back.. its in ENgland.. england stole it as war booty and refuses to return it because of the same 1971 agreement saying because of that agreement IT now owns the stone.
The movie U571 is a complete work of fiction. Only in Hollywood's dreams did the American Navy seize an Enigma machine from a German Sub early in WWII. The movie is loosly based on the capture of U110 by the British destroyer Bulldog on May 9, 1941, more than 7 months before Germany declared war on the US. The real U571 was sunk by an Australian Sunderland aircraft.
I reckon that the article itself was a secretly encoded message, hence its unreadability. I'll have to run it through my cryptoanalyzer.
"Orange pigs fly south for winter, aunt Betty misses you, please call the hat shop." Ahem.
ok, it is wonderful to have this important piece of history back where it belongs, and the theif caught, but was it really necessary to go through such lengths?
/. made it seem like it was REALLY interesting. I read the article (and even though I am a bit hungover still) it really wasn't that great and I was rather annoyed w/it. There were very few exciting details and in fact it really didn't say much other than it was recovered...
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the way that the artcile was written on
Just my worthless whining for this morning
It seems to have gone unmentioned, for the most part, that the Sunday Times is Britain's equivalent of the National Enquirer. This article is most probably utter bullshit, I mean THE Sunday Times has negotiated secretly for weeks to ensure the safe return ... ??? And don't forget the Sunday Times was also the rag that brought Britain the Hitler Diaries.
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You Americans need to cultivate a healthy distrust of the media
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