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the British diplomatic codes, and though Pers Z would seem to have been
the logical recipient, Schellen-berg gave the photographs to his
communications-intelligence friends in the military. They cooperated
fairly closely with Pers Z, however, and they probably passed the material
to it. Pers z may also have gotten copies from Ribbentrop. Kunze and
Paschke both saw Cicero documents and were unimpressed. For the
British were by then superenciphering their most secret messages in a
one-time pad. Though the Cicero messages may have contributed to the
solution of some lesser British systems and so helped produce some
minor information, they could not make possible the recovery of the one-
time keys of any other messages. Operation Cicero, so complete a
success in one sense, was thus an almost total failure in another.
At about this time, Hottl, the young man who had discovered Figl,
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