Commander Alexander "Alastair" Guthrie Denniston CB CMG CBE RNVR (1 December 1881 – 1 January 1961) was a Scottish codebreaker in Room 40, deputy head...
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Denniston may refer to: Alastair Denniston (1881–1961), British codebreaker Elaine Denniston (born 1939), lawyer, supported the Apollo program James Dennistoun...
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to miss him. When he was leaving he said to Stewart Menzies] or to Alastair Denniston: "I know I said not to leave no stone unturned to get staff, but I...
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Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) and deputy to Alastair Denniston. Travis replaced Denniston as the operational head of Bletchley Park in February...
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College. Just before World War II, Welchman was invited by Commander Alastair Denniston to join the Government Code and Cypher School in the event of war...
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cover-name which was chosen by Victor Forbes of the Foreign Office. Alastair Denniston, who had been a member of NID25, was appointed as its operational...
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Furman, and Charles Richards in Bletchley Park, directed by Commander Alastair Denniston. They are to analyze the Enigma machine, which the Nazis use to send...
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British military intelligence representatives including Dilly Knox, Alastair Denniston and Humphrey Sandwith were introduced by their allied Polish counterparts...
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first record of these meetings is a February 1941 diary entry from Alastair Denniston, head of Bletchley Park, reading "The Ys are coming!" with "Ys" referring...
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implementation of an Enigma machine, sold at the Bletchley Park souvenir shop Alastair Denniston Arlington Hall Arne Beurling Beaumanor Hall, a stately home used during...
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1886) 1960 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1909) 1961 – Alastair Denniston, Scottish cryptologist (b. 1881) 1966 – Vincent Auriol, French journalist...
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Patricia Davies (born 1923), British code breaker in World War II Alastair Denniston, UK, director of GC&CS at Bletchley Park from 1919 to 1942. Agnes...
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No. Image Name Term 1 Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair 1921–1939 Cmdr Alastair Denniston 1921–1942 Operational head 2 Sir Edward Travis 1942–1952 3 Sir Eric Jones...
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with the Biuro Szyfrów (Polish cryptographers). Knox, Hugh Foss and Alastair Denniston represented the GC&CS at the first Polish–French–British meeting at...
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Braquenié of the French Air Force staff. The British sent Commander Alastair Denniston, head of Britain's Government Code and Cypher School, Dilly Knox,...
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Cork to resume her academic career. Major Malcolm Vivian Hay and Alastair Denniston named Anderson as a codebreaker they wanted to keep in the newly formed...
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Gordon Welchman, a key figure at Bletchley Park during WWII, and Alastair Denniston, the first operational head of GCHQ. In 2017, he contributed a chapter...
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interception and decryption service. Among its early recruits were Alastair Denniston, Frank Adcock, John Beazley, Francis Birch, Walter Horace Bruford...
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intelligence specialist Commander Alastair Denniston and his wife and coworker, Dorothy Mary Gilliat, Robin Denniston was born in London. He attended Westminster...
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school holidays and to naval students having been sent on active duty. Alastair Denniston had been teaching German but later became second in charge of Room...
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Charles Babbage Fredson Bowers Lambros D. Callimahos Joan Clarke Alastair Denniston Agnes Meyer Driscoll Elizebeth Friedman William F. Friedman Meredith...
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the founder and head of GC&CS between 1919 and 1938 with Commander Alastair Denniston being operational head of the organization from 1919 to 1942, beginning...
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while still at St. John's, he was summoned to an interview with Alastair Denniston, head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), and was thereby...
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morale-boosting visit, Winston Churchill reportedly remarked to head of GC&CS Alastair Denniston: "I told you to leave no stone unturned to get staff, but I had no...
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British Military (Army) Intelligence Room 40 Royal Navy (Britain) Alastair Denniston Room 40 James Alfred Ewing Room 40, first head Nigel de Grey Room...
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Enigma, 1984, p. 59. Ralph Erskine, "The Poles Reveal their Secrets: Alastair Denniston's Account of the July 1939 Meeting at Pyry," Cryptologia 30 (4), December...
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Robinson Great Britain (GBR) Scotland Alexander Burt John Burt Alastair Denniston Charles Foulkes Hew Fraser James Harper-Orr Ivan Laing Hugh Neilson...
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Charles Power Franks Robinson Scotland Alexander Burt John Burt (GK) Alastair Denniston Charles Foulkes Hew Fraser James Harper-Orr Ivan Laing Hugh Neilson...
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