RIP Mavis Bately - cryptographer at Bletchley Park

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From The Boston Globe

In May 1940, Mrs. Batey — then the unmarried Mavis Lever — joined the team of code breakers at Bletchley Park, the British cryptography headquarters. Trained in the enemy’s language and endowed with a facility for words, she became a key contributor to a wartime project that remained classified for decades. But by the time of her death on Nov. 12 at 92, Mrs. Batey was regarded in England as a national heroine. Working with Alfred Dillwyn ‘‘Dilly’’ Knox and other celebrated code breakers, she learned to decipher what she called the ‘‘utter gibberish’’ of encrypted German communications.

[irisblue]

1. sleep well Mavis

you & your code breakers saved the World....sleep sweetly

[ismnotwasm]

2. RIP

Great story

[smirkymonkey]

3. There was a great series on PBS about the women of Bletchley Park who worked on solving serial

murders in London in the 1950's. I forgot what it was called, but it was brilliant. These women could never come out about what they had did at Bletchley, but they were absolutely brilliant. It was chilling, but it was a great drama,