TheCodeBreakers
A few days later, he laid the sheaf
before Schellenberg and said: "Please read this, and if you would like to
have it regularly, give me a credit for the first 100,000 Swiss francs." But
Schellenberg feared that Hitler, who distrusted the Hungarians because
of their marked lack of enthusiasm for being an Axis partner, would not
like the idea if he heard of it. He gave Hottl only a nominal sum. But
Hottl wangled the francs out of the R.S.H.A. financial wizard, Friedrich
Schwend—not too difficult a task, since the money was bogus.
Within six months, the unit exceeded even Hottl's sanguine hopes by
reading a goodly portion of the secret radiograms of embassies in
Moscow. Figl seems to have joined it and become one of its star
cryptanalysts, performing some minor miracles in his room with pots of
black coffee and packs of cigarettes whenever the unit was stumped.
Bibo's interceptors and cryptanalysts had become the R.S.H.A.'s first
annaabi.ee 
