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antman on Aug 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: 'Sending a message': what the US and UK are attemp...

They were not spying on people as far as I know.

twoodfin on Aug 21, 2013 [–]

Huh? The whole facility, and the brilliant minds working there, existed entirely to enable the successful decryption of Axis transmissions. If that's not "spying", I don't know what is.

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