OBITUARY : John Wright

28 March 2013

OBITUARY : John Wright
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John Wright, wartime cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park

Wartime cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park who decoded the German high 
command's vital "Tunny" messages

One of the dwindling band of veterans of Bletchley Park who worked on the 
German "Lorenz" cipher, John Wright was a toiler at the coalface of 
intelligence gathering, deciphering encrypted German signals traffic at 
their highest level of command.

In early 1942, before Wright was diverted from the Royal Armoured Corps 
where he was a radio operator, the Lorenz cipher system - codenamed Tunny 
by the British code-breakers - had been cracked. The system was used to 
encrypt messages between the German Army HQ in Berlin and field commanders 
of huge forces on all the key battle fronts....../snip/

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article3724558.ece

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