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Related: About this forumRIP Mavis Bately - cryptographer at Bletchley Park
From The Boston Globe
In May 1940, Mrs. Batey then the unmarried Mavis Lever joined the team of code breakers at Bletchley Park, the British cryptography headquarters. Trained in the enemys language and endowed with a facility for words, she became a key contributor to a wartime project that remained classified for decades. But by the time of her death on Nov. 12 at 92, Mrs. Batey was regarded in England as a national heroine. Working with Alfred Dillwyn Dilly Knox and other celebrated code breakers, she learned to decipher what she called the utter gibberish of encrypted German communications.
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RIP Mavis Bately - cryptographer at Bletchley Park (Original Post)
intaglio
Nov 2013
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There was a great series on PBS about the women of Bletchley Park who worked on solving serial
smirkymonkey
Nov 2013
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irisblue
(32,829 posts)1. sleep well Mavis
you & your code breakers saved the World....sleep sweetly
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)2. RIP
Great story
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. There was a great series on PBS about the women of Bletchley Park who worked on solving serial
murders in London in the 1950's. I forgot what it was called, but it was brilliant. These women could never come out about what they had did at Bletchley, but they were absolutely brilliant. It was chilling, but it was a great drama,