Specifically:
1). In The
American M-209 cipher machine I added info on the unit
NAASt 7 and the compromise of the M-209 machine during the invasion of
Sicily in 1943.
2). I added a link
to NARA
microfilms containing information on State Department codes and ciphers.
3). I updated my essay The
French War Ministry’s FLD code with information from the ‘Bulletin de l’ARCSI’ articles: Essai
d'historique du Chiffre (Add. N°3) and Essai
d'historique du Chiffre (N°5) by Général Ribadeau-Dumas.
Also added info from the TICOM
documents 3612, 3684, 3661.
4). I added a
link to the HistoCrypt
2019 proceedings.
5). I added
links to Russian
articles on their cryptologic effort during WWII.
6). I added a
link to the report ‘Technik
und Verfahren der Spionagefunkdienste’ (link from
cdvant.org)
7). I added
links to the following interesting academic articles:
‘A German perspective on allied deception
operations in the Second World War’ by Klaus‐Jürgen
Müller.
‘Seeing
things differently: contrasting narratives of British
and German photographic intelligence during the Second World War’
by Joseph W. Caddell Jr.
‘Operation FORTITUDE SOUTH: An Analysis of
its Influence upon German Dispositions and Conduct of Operations in 1944’ by Craig Bickell.
German
mathematicians and cryptology in WWII by Frode Weierud
and Sandy Zabell.
‘On
the Role of Soviet Intelligence During the Preparation of the Red Army for the Summer Campaign of 1943’ by Valerii Nikolaevic Zamulin.
‘Conscious
Movement Toward Armageddon: Preparation of the Third World War in Orders of the USSR War Ministry, 1946–1953’
by Alexander Gogun.
8). I uploaded
the following documents to my TICOM folder:
‘Überprüfung
der Sicherheit eigener Geheimschriften’ dated 25 August 1944.
‘Niederschrift
der Besprechung über Chiffrierfragen - 15.11.44’ dated 21
November 1944.
KV
3/349 ‘The case of the Rote Kapelle’ (only parts 1 and
2).
Unfortunately,
there were some setbacks:
1). The
authorized history of GCHQ ‘Behind
the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber Intelligence
Agency’ has been delayed till October 2020.
2). My two FOIA cases (TICOM
report I-40 from the NSA and the Henriksson report from the State Department)
are still in review.
Hopefully in 2020 my FOIA cases will be processed. Apart from that I don’t have any active research projects on crypto history.
