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Mavis Batey, Bletchley Park code breaker in World War II, dies at 92
Mavis Batey was a British student of 19, midway through her university studies of German Romanticism, when she was recruited for a top-secret assignment during World War II.
“This is going to be an interesting job, Mata Hari, seducing Prussian officers,” she years later recalled thinking. “But I don’t think either my legs or my German were good enough because they sent me to the Government Code and Cipher School.”
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