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Espionage

             One of my favorite games are hide and seek. I liked to watch where the seeker looked while he or she searched. What would happen though if the seeker didn't know who he was looking for, but knew someone was hiding? How would he find the person? How much more could the person accomplish if they were hiding right in front of them, but the seeker did not know? That was basically the game of espionage. Spies would try to conceal themselves by gathering information at the same time. One of the wars that the USA needed espionage help was in WWII. They needed to get informationand keep German spies from stealing thier secrets.
             Espionage helped the US defeat of Germany and their allies in WWII. Spies during WWII were intended to provide the basis for an accurate assessment of other nations' intentions and military capabilities. In WWII a successful surprise attack could leave a victim staggered and ready for a knockout blow. At the beginning of the war all the major combatants had a place in code breaking establishments, all of which would experience explosive growth during the war. These agencies would then go on to provide critical information during the war to provide information needed to combat the Axis. One of the most important needs for espionage was in the deciphering of the ENIGMA. This was used to code and decode German messages sent and received between commanders and such. It was very hard to decipher the ENIGMA because of the way it was set up. What made it so difficult to decipher was the process by which a letter in an original message was transformed into a different one for the transmitted message. The process involved, among other things, three motors in each machine that were chosen from a set of five. Each of them had twenty-six settings, and a plugboard, which connected the keyboard letters to the lampboard letters. For example the first time the L key was pressed a B might light up, but because the rotors turned further entries of L on the board would not produce another B but rather other letters.


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