How to hire a spy

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2024-06-06  1130  晦涩

GEOFFREY TANDY was not sure why he had been summoned for war work in 1939. He was a botanist at the Natural History Museum in London and a friend of T.S. Eliot, a poet. Bletchley Park, Britain’s codebreaking centre in the second world war, had asked for an expert in cryptograms (encrypted text). Tandy was an expert in cryptogams (algae). Sometimes everything pivots on a consonant.

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