From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 03:39:07 +0800
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
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jim bell writes:
> (For the historically-impaired:  Coventry was/is an English town (small 
> city?) perhaps most famous from the Lady Godiva legend...but I digress...    
>  British found out, I guess through Ultra, that it was going to be bombed.  
> Telling the inhabitants would have saved many lives, but (possibly) alerted 
> the Germans that Enigma had been broken.  British made the correct choice:  
> Let the city get bombed without (much?) warning.  The value of keeping the 
> broken-ness of Ultra a secret far outweighed the value of Coventry.)

The current claim is that, in fact, there was no advance warning about
Coventry and that the claims that there was are unsubstantiated.

Perry