An Electronic Mole In Winston Churchill’s Office
Germans were able to eavesdrop on Churchill’s conversation with FDR. The USA came up with SIGSALY encryption to save the war.
It was a British war cabinet meeting at a bunker in World War II below the streets of London. Discussions happened on the entire Allied strategy in that room. Germany overheard all those vital information through a mole. The British intelligence was not aware of the existence of the mole but interacted with it daily. The mole which helped Germany was a Telephone. Not an ordinary phone but a phone in which Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt discussed the war.
Telephone and war:
The Telephone saw wartime usage for the first time in World War II. The Telegram was the instrument of war in World War I, and it got slowly replaced by the Telephone. Telephone companies across the world started to lay telephone lines to connect people. The news was now available in an instant to anyone in any part of the world. Reconnaissance balloons were the first to receive telephone connection during the war. The observer in the ballons had…
