There's at least one Celtic-related code story from Bletchley Park,
though its not a Gaelic or code-talker one.
One of the intelligence honchos was referred to as "C"
rather than by name (a practice later picked up by James Bond stories.)
One Scottish worker there didn't follow the practice,
and w
At 02:37 PM 10/2/02 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>While vacationing in Scotland this summer I had a conversation with a
>gentleman who said that the British had used Scottish Gaelic speakers as
>"code talkers" during World War II. He added that they were not used in
>the European theatre, as there w
Neal Stephenson probably ran into a similar story; he inserts it
(in fictionalized, names-changed form) in his novel Cryptonomicon.
You can probably find some references to the historical precedences
by googling starting there.
[Moderator's Note: I think Stephenson's story didn't seem to involv
While vacationing in Scotland this summer I had a conversation with a
gentleman who said that the British had used Scottish Gaelic speakers as
"code talkers" during World War II. He added that they were not used in
the European theatre, as there were too many Irish Gaelic speakers who
sympathized
