TheCodeBreakers
his death in 1743, when he was receiving £800. The other cryptanalysts
at various times were James Rivers, Frederick Ashfield, John Lampe,
f George Neubourg, John Bode, Jr., one Scholing, and a
Boelstring.
These men received their foreign interceptions from the
:' Secret Office and their domestic ones from the Private - Office, both
subdivisions of the Post Office. The Secret Office was quartered in three
rooms adjoining the Foreign Office and entered privately from Abchurch
Lane. Fire and candles burned constantly in one room; the staff lodged in
the others. It included men who made their life's work the specialty of
unsealing diplomatic packets with such, deftness that they could be
resealed without evidence of tampering; one such opener was J. E. Bode,
father of John Bode, Jr. He regularly spent three hours on the dispatches
of the King of Prussia, opening them and then re-sealing them with
special wax and carefully counterfeited seals
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