From: hardin@cyberspace.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 13:13:15 PDT
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: Re: QED_jak
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Perry Metzger writes:
> 
> 
> John Young writes:
> >    "U.S. Tells How It Found Soviets Sought A-Bomb: Discloses
> >    Clues That Led to Code-Breaking."
> > 

[snip]
> The reports claimed the spys were using one time pads in some flawed
> manner, but did not explain very well what the problem was. Does
> anyone out there know?
> 
> .pm
> 
> 
> 

A real good book with a fair amount of details is Peter Wright's great
book "Spycatcher". The clueless media concentrated on Wright's allegation
that Sir Roger Hollis, head of MI5 was a Soviet mole or the "5th Man"
of the Philby, Burgess, Maclean & Blunt spyring. Now Wright may have been
in Jesus Angleton's psychotic "wilderness of mirrors" too long, but he
did a lot of bugging & stuff w/ GCHQ & he spends a great deal of his book
talking about precisely the Venona decrypts. Briefly there was some reuse
of "one time pads". He gives a fair amount of detail, & I suspect this is
why HRM Govt. was so displeased, the supposed "embarrassment" of the
allegations against long dead Sir Roger being just a cover story & much
easier for the tabloids & general public to understand.

tjh 


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