From: Tim Philp <bplib@wat.hookup.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 23:55:19 +0800
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Subject: Re: SS Obergruppenfuhrer Zimmermann (NOT!)
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If I recall correctly, the Zimmermann Telegram did NOT bring the US into 
the war. It was however one of the many things that lead to a US decision 
to enter the war. In itself it did not cause the US entry.
Just my $0.02
Tim Philp

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On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> jim bell writes:
> > Maybe this is common knowledge, but the name "Zimmermann" and crypto had 
> > another relationship, in World War I.  If anybody knows more about this 
> > incident than my vague recollection of the famous "Zimmermann cipher" would 
> > you care to tell the story?
> 
> It was the Zimmermann Telegram, actually, and it was a dispatch from
> the Germans to the Mexicans trying to promise them most of the
> southwest in exchange for being allies against the U.S. (which wasn't
> yet in the war). The Brits intercepted and decoded it and released it,
> which forced the U.S. into World War I.
> 
> Perry
>