... from Oxford or Cambridge. After the British had worked out that the Germans were using a machine called 'Enigma', they began to hire more people to work at Bletchley Park. Most new recruits were mathematicians from Universities, but they did not get on well with the code breakers, as they had different methods of decoding messages. However, they soon got along, and it was the mathematicians who made the real breakthrough on the Enigma. The government then decided that it would be a good idea to hold a cryptic crossword for The Daily Telegraph. Those who solved it within twelve minutes were recruited for work at Bletchley Park. Y Stations were set up all over Britain and the people that worked there had an important task. The operators there had to pick up the signal of the German messages at the correct frequency. These were picked up ...

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