Tues april 27

Reinhard Gehlen- Hitlers top German advisor-after war handed over information to U.S.-he gave enough information for the U.S. to start the CIA

Morris Cohen- American born and raised- gave a lot of information to the soviets- active communist- gave info on the Manhattan project(atomic bombs)- went and lived in USSR when he finished giving them info

Many multi-lingual people were used as spies

inernment camps-on Feb 19 1942, roosevelt signed executive order 9066-after attack on pearl harbor many japanese were put into camps so they could not spie on US-many japanese died due to bad conditions

Enigma Machine- germans had many enigma coding machines which sent secret messages through a network- US decoders could break codes and read the messages- we knew about many german offensives before it happened-ULTRA was code name given to deciphering code over europe-MAGIC code name given to decipherong code over pacific


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