TheCodeBreakers
In one case, they
tapped a telephone call between the Italian military ATTACHÉ in Stockholm
and his colleague in Oslo. The recording sounded absolutely
unintelligible, and the Swedes at first thought that the Italians had used
a telephone scrambler. When they determined that they had not, the
recording was sent to the language department at Uppsala, where it was
found to be a Sicilian dialect rendered incomprehensible by the attache's
over-liberal use of cursewords. Eventually the sense was sorted out, and
the conversation proved to comprise the Stockholm attache's
explanations of how to use the military ATTACHÉ code, which the Oslo
man—who was railing at the idiots in Rome who would send him such a
code—could not fathom. Between the explosions of the colorful Sicilian
equivalents for "dunce" and "jackass" and still other expletives were
references to operating procedure, meanings of specific codewords, and
so on
annaabi.ee 
