Documents show that Alan Turing's code-breaking machines from the Second World War were stashed away until 1959, just in case the Enigma code needed to be cracked again. They were thought to have been completely destroyed after the war but documents recently found inside GCHQ reveal that 50 of the machines were hidden away in an underground shelter. The records shows that 50 Bombes and 20 Enigma machines were kept 'against a rainy day'. Alan Turing developed the code-breaking machines at Bletchley Park to decipher messages encrypted by the German army's Enigma code during the Second World War. GCHQ departmental historian Tony Comer, like many others, believed that the historic machines crafted at Bletchley Park had been destroyed.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 07, 2018 09:39 UTC