OBITUARY : Douglas Nicoll - Wartime codebreaker who took Britain’s spymasters

The Times 
Thursday 19 November 2015

OBITUARY : Douglas Nicoll
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- British soldiers lying prostrate after surrendering to Argentine forces
  in the Falklands in 1982. Nicholl later pinpointed the reasons why the
  invasion took the intelligence services by surprise

Wartime codebreaker who took Britain’s spymasters to task in the weeks 
before the Falklands conflict.

Douglas Nicoll was an intelligence officer who highlighted the 
shortcomings of Britain’s spymasters in the 1980s, particularly in the 
months before the Falklands conflict. Some of his work is still 
classified.

He was the author of a secret report in 1982 that demonstrated how 
aggression by foreign powers often took the intelligence services by 
surprise; the report was presented — but not acted upon — 29 days before 
Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands and deepened the government’s sense 
of embarrassment as the British task force set out for the South Atlantic. 
Nicoll, who was a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World 
War.

Nicoll, who was a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World 
War.../snip/


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