Mick Jagger and Enigma

The story of Mick Jagger and Enigma is more involved and more interesting than 
hinted at in recent posts. 

Mick Jagger has been interested in Enigma for about twenty years, and was outbid 
at a Phillips auction in 1993, failing to buy a 4-rotor naval machine. The machine sold 
for £24,172.50, and was included in a subsequent Guinness Book of Records 
as the most expensive piece of 'radio related equipment'. 
He did later manage to buy another machine.

Jagger founded Jagged Films in 1995 and in 1998 announced that the company's first film 
was to be 'Enigma', which was duly released in 2001.

In a letter to The Daily Mail in May 2002, Dennis Yates (the man convicted of handling 
G312 stolen from Bletchley in 2000) revealed that it was he who had outbid Jagger 
at the 1993 auction, thus securing the first 4-rotor machine to appear on the market.

On the Science Museum's website, a 3-rotor machine is shown, described as having 
been donated to the museum in 1980. Perhaps Jagger's 4-rotor machine is also on display?

Mark Baldwin