I was a Cryptographer

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Mr Gratto remembers the work he did as a cryptographer and the process that was involved.

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My job, actually, I was a cryptographer which means I took all the daily information that was gathered by other people, taken and given to me and I would encode it, put it in something that you cannot read and send it over the radio to Leopoldville. Leopoldville would re-encrypt it, send the information to Ottawa and some of it would go to UN headquarters in New York. But who got it? What they did with it after that I don’t know. I did it. If it wasn’t for me they wouldn’t have got it in the first place. So there you g

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