TheCodeBreakers
Enciclopedia Italiana, Gamba was a noted linguist who reputedly knew
25 languages. He came to public attention in 1911 when he translated a
series of proclamations into Arabic during the Italo-Turkish conflict over
Tripoli. The 50 members of Sezione 5 were housed in a large apartment
house in Rome far from S.I.M. headquarters but connected by
teletypewriter with it and with the extensive intercept unit, Sezione 6,
located on the Forte Bocea, a hill behind the Vatican. Gamba's crypt-
analysts maintained close liaison with the chemical section, which
worked with secret inks and other means of steg-anography, with the
censorship section, and with the phototypographic section, which rapidly
reproduced stolen documents.
Like their O.K.W. colleagues, the Sezione 5 cryptanalysts had solved
the military ciphers of Yugoslavia, with whom Italy's relations had been
strained over Fiume and Trieste practically since Yugoslavia was created