Describe the organization and the Work of the people at Bletchley Park?
Describe the organization and the Work of the people at Bletchley Park?
Bletchley Park was the British home of military intelligence during the Second World War. It intercepted enemy messages, which would hopefully help them to win the war. These messages were written in code so the British Government employed Oxbridge Mathematicians to work day and night trying to break the code to read the messages. Along with the code breakers their were code readers who had to translate the code into text, Morse code operators who had to take down the text as it came through often having to write down up to 90 characters per minute, plus there were hundreds of filing clerks, runners. At the height of the war there were believed to be around 10,000 people working at Bletchley Park. Everybody at Bletchley Park had to swear to keep what he or she did a secret even from the other people who worked at Bletchley Park. The only people who had a clear picture of the work being done at Bletchley Park were the generals who controlled the operation and there still some parts that were even classified to them, all the workers were told was that the small piece they were doing made a bigger picture of the German movements.
