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Originally Posted by Andy Saunders
Rudi
At best the Ultra intercepts offer up some little nuggets of information that need careful examination and interpretation in light of collective information and data that is now to hand, thus enabling us to better understand the sense and context of those fragmented intercepts.
Not an exact science, unfortunately!
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I've only minimal acquaintance with the 1940 stuff but the 1944/45 material is in a completely different league in terms of the interpretation and context that Bletchley Park were able add to the basic messages. The more information they amassed, the more they could understand.
It's never 100% reliable but they did get extremely good as time went on. I love the comments where they point out that the Germans are making mistakes in their own reports.