WW2 double cross had no effect on bombardment of London by V2 rockets

Interesting MailOnline article.

New finding aid for the TICOM collection in the Political Archive of the German Foreign Ministry

Some time ago I posted the finding aid for the TICOM collection in the Political Archive of the German Foreign Ministry (excel file).

Now a new finding aid is available with a short description of each file (in pdf format). I have uploaded it to my Google Drive account.

Google drive link. 

Cryptologic history Symposium 2019

The program for the NSA’s Cryptologic history Symposium has been posted.

There seem to be some interesting presentations about WWII and the Cold war period. For example:

Dr. George Lasry Modern Codebreaking of Siemens and Halske T52

Mr. Jock Bruce What Happened Next? British Army Sigint, 1919-1939

Mr. Tony Comer GCHQ Centenary History

Dr. John Ferris GCHQ during the Cold War

Mr. Richard R. Lonergan Re-Evaluating the Cryptological Dividends of the Battle of Nomohan at 80: The Impact of Soviet Breakthroughs into Japanese Code and Cipher Systems

Dr. Francis Jordan-Rozwadowski What the Metadata Say: A Study of OKW/Chi Decrypts of Polish Intelligence Traffic

Dr. David Kenyon How Fishy was ULTRA? – The Role of Encrypted Teleprinter Traffic in the Intelligence for Operation OVERLORD

Mr. Marty Busse COMSEC Lietuvos Partizanų

Dr. Paul A. Thomsen Terminating the Signal: How SIGINT Turned the Tide against Axis Submarine Predation in World War II

Mr. Robert J. Hanyok Answering the Age-Old Commander’s Question: What the Hell is Going on out There? – The U.S. Army’s Signal Information and Monitoring Units and the

Phantom Service

I hope that they decide to publish their proceedings online, like Histocrypt did.

Dick White’s Devilish Plot

Interesting essay by Coldspur

Interesting articles

From the ‘Journal of Slavic Military Studies’:

1). ‘On the Role of Soviet Intelligence During the Preparation of the Red Army for the Summer Campaign of 1943’ by Valerii Nikolaevic Zamulin.

2). ‘Conscious Movement Toward Armageddon: Preparation of the Third World War in Orders of theUSSR War Ministry, 1946–1953’ by Alexander Gogun.

German cipher security reports from 1944

I have uploaded the following documents to my TICOM folder:

1). Report titled: ‘Überprüfung der Sicherheit eigener Geheimschriften’ dated 25 August 1944.

Source: Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart - Kapsel 137 / 14.

2). Report titled: ‘Niederschrift der Besprechung über Chiffrierfragen - 15.11.44’ dated 21 November 1944.

Source: German Foreign Ministry’s Political Archive - TICOM collection – file Nr 1.620 – ‘1938/45 Korrespondenz Dr. Hüttenhain’.

Histocrypt 2019 proceedings

International Conference on Historical Cryptology 2019 proceedings

Interesting article on the German codebreakers of WWII

German mathematicians and cryptology in WWII by Frode Weierud and Sandy Zabell.