The Invisible Code
“The mansion had been built by a wealthy city financier in 1883 and finished in a bizarre mix of architectural styles, crenellated and gabled, with Tudor beams, decorative cream stonework, turrets, arches and redbrick octagonal rooms, one with a green copper dome.
In the Second World War it had been rechristened Station X and filled with MI6 codebreakers who masqueraded as ‘Captain Ridley’s Shooting Party’ to disguise their true identities. Here Alan Turing and his colleagues had cracked the secret of the German Enigma machine, following a path of discovery that would eventually lead to the birth of the modern computer.
Angela Lacie was a former MI6 cryptography expert who had retired to help raise sponsorship for the restoration of Bletchley Park. As she swung down the stairs Bryant saw her as he had first seen her not long after the war: an elegant no-nonsense scientist in a boxy suit, with her blonde hair in slides made from wire clips tied with beads; there had been no mone...y for fashion items, and the MI6 girls had made their own.MoreLess
In the Second World War it had been rechristened Station X and filled with MI6 codebreakers who masqueraded as ‘Captain Ridley’s Shooting Party’ to disguise their true identities. Here Alan Turing and his colleagues had cracked the secret of the German Enigma machine, following a path of discovery that would eventually lead to the birth of the modern computer.
Angela Lacie was a former MI6 cryptography expert who had retired to help raise sponsorship for the restoration of Bletchley Park. As she swung down the stairs Bryant saw her as he had first seen her not long after the war: an elegant no-nonsense scientist in a boxy suit, with her blonde hair in slides made from wire clips tied with beads; there had been no mone...y for fashion items, and the MI6 girls had made their own.MoreLess
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