Arms to Africa affair

[Brown, R Ken]

> Keith Lockstone  wrote: 
> 
> I wonder if the problem associated with releasing certain telegrams is
really a
> crypto problem?  If they were ciphered before transmission, releasing
a precise
> plaintext is not a good idea.


> However, if OTPs had been used, then it shouldn't matter...

Unless they've got *really* lazy  :-)

Didn't they use to have comms  people in embassies who paraphrased
messages so that the diplomats didn't see the exact words and couldn't
accidentally (or  on purpose)  leak them?