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on plans for local military operations. He carefully encoded his messages
in the BLACK code and radioed them to Washington, usually addressed to
MILID WASH (Mzfitary Intelligence Division, Washington). And as his
transmissions flashed through the ether, listening Axis radio stations—
usually at least two, so that nothing would be missed—took down every
word. The intercepts were transmitted by direct wire to cryptanalysts,
where they were reduced to plaintext, translated, reenciphered in a
German system, and forwarded to General Erwin Rommel, commander of
the Afrika Korps. He often had the messages only a few hours after
Fellers had sent them.
And what messages they were! They provided Rommel with
undoubtedly the broadest and clearest picture of enemy forces and
intentions available to any Axis commander throughout the whole war.
In the seesaw North African warfare, Rommel had been driven back
across the desert by the British under General Claude Auchinleck at the
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