TheCodeBreakers
The Italians drank as deeply of the
stream of that neutral's messages as the Hungarian group that worked
for Hottl was to do. For more than two years, Turkish cryptograms told
the Italian government of rumored Allied war plans, of Allied views, of an
uncommitted observer's comments on Axis programs and prospects. On
January 4, 1943, Ciano jotted in his diary: "The Duce asked me to give
[Hans Georg] von Mackensen [German ambassador to Italy] a copy of a
telegram the Turkish ambassador Zorlu sent to his government from
Kuibyshev. It is a description of the Soviet situation. It seems impartial
and quite informative. According to him, the war weighs heavily on the
Russians, but Russia is still strong, and, in the judgment of the
diplomatic corps in Kuibyshev, Axis stock is falling."
Though Sezione 5 solved many cryptograms, many of its successes
came, not from cryptanalysis, but from the S.I.M.'s theft of cryptologic
documents. In 1941 alone, the S.I.M
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