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Secret and Urgent - The Story of Codes and Ciphers. Anon
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isbn 9781528764810
Автор произведения Anon
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Издательство Ingram
Unfortunately the conversations picked up by the microphone were not rich in information. But the device worked beautifully as far as audibility went, and the Italians turned it to use by sending through the Austrian lines one of their best spies, a girl named Rosita, who was a clever singer and an accomplished guitarist. She established herself in the town with the inn and well, and every night came to the courtyard to entertain the Austrian divisional staff with improvised ditties, into which were woven amusing little comments on each division and regiment that arrived in line, with personal chatter about its officers.
Naturally, these songs also formed a convenient code by means of which she was telling her countrymen through the microphone, the name, location and characteristics of every Austrian unit facing them. In a cryptographic sense the thing is possible but very difficult; Rosita would have had to be extraordinarily clever to get that much information into her songs without arousing suspicion. But it is certain that the Italians were particularly well informed as to the enemy order of battle before they launched their troops in the great offensive of Vittorio Veneto that broke Austria and drove her out of the war.
* I acquired, moreover,
A pretty mistress
Dreaming of wine without water,
And unadulterated booze,
Stockings, fine shoes,
A lace-covered waist,
A feathered hat.
* See notes at back.
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