TheCodeBreakers
The American military ATTACHÉ in Cairo had much better
opportunities to observe military action than his colleague in Moscow,
owing to factors of distance, language, and politics, and he took full
advantage of these opportunities to do his job. He was Colonel Bonner
Frank Fellers, a West Pointer with a varied peacetime experience,
including two years as assistant to General Douglas MacArthur. Fellers
had been posted to Cairo in October, 1940. He industriously toured the
battlefronts and studied the tactics and problems of desert warfare. He
asked questions. He kept his eyes open. The British let him in on some of
their secrets, hoping that this would improve American equipment lend-
leased to Britain's desert forces, but probably withheld some because of
his anti-British predilections. Fellers soaked up this great quantity of
information and poured it out to Washington in voluminous and detailed
reports.
annaabi.ee 
