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> needed a secretive unit > American idiom "couldn't hit the broad side of a barn" It's being clever like that what got the Germans in WWII in trouble, I part
by Already__Taken 6y ago
> needed a secretive unit
> American idiom "couldn't hit the broad side of a barn"
It's being clever like that what got the Germans in WWII in trouble, I particularly like Wotan -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_name#German_code_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_name#German_code_names
Were as the brits made up a random code for this purpose - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Codes
- mhh__ 6y agoRV Jones's book is a great read about scientific intelligence of WW2. Also, the NRO have previously given away classified orbits of spy satellites on their mission patches.