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Authors: Michael Smith
The Secrets of Station X (44 page)
Ralph Tester, who was in charge of the Testery, the section that broke the messages by hand after the effect of the chi wheels had been removed by the Newmanry.
The Newmanry, where the effect of the chi wheels was removed with the assistance of the
Colossus
, or initially the
Robinson
, computers.
Hugh Foss, who broke the Japanese
Red
diplomatic machine cypher before the war and was head of Hut 7, the Japanese section.
Frank Birch, the former actor who was head of Hut 4, the naval codebreaking section.
A US Navy WAVE operating one of the US Bombes, which from 1943 provided major support to Bletchley Park’s breaking of the Enigma four-rotor cypher machines.
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