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more important becomes cryptanalysis. At the front, it probably stands
equal with prisoner-of-war intelligence or aerial reconnaisance. But
neither of these can match it for providing insight into the strategic plans
of top generals or the basic diplomatic policy of a whole country. A spy
may occasionally pluck forth a richer nugget, but he cannot refine the
quantity of ore that a cryptanalyst can, nor can he command the
credibility. The ungrudging tributes of the two German spymasters attest
to this superiority: Walter Schellenberg's acknowledgment that the
assistance rendered him by the communications-intelligence chiefs
"made most of my success in Secret Service operations possible," and
Wilhelm Hottl's boast that his Hungarian cryptanalysts provided him
with "at least a hundred successes such as seldom fall to the lot of a
Secret Service working in the ordinary ways." General Ame, chief of
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