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BLETCHLEY PARK Question 1 Bletchley Park is fifty miles from London which is not very far. This was a perfect location for a set up like Bletchley Park because it was far away enough from London to stop it from being bombed during the war. Because it was close to Oxford and Cambridge universities they could easily recruit their staff from the universities. Bletchley Park was originally an evacuation base for MI6. MI6 deals with foreign intelligence. Bletchley then became a government code and cipher school. Bletchley Park was set up to break German the Enigma codes. Bletchley Park was given the code name 'Station X'. Y service stations where set up all around the British Empire to intercept German messages. These messages were recorded by the Y service stations and passed on to Station X. They passed the messages on because they were in code and needed to be decoded. At first mainly...

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