Dimensions
128 x 197 x 23mm
On April Fool's Day 2000, Bletchley Park, centre of allied intelligence work during WWII, again became the centre of a mystery. One of the Enigma machines, famously used to decode German messages during WWII had disappeared.
A major police campaign ensued, closely followed on a daily basis by the press. Ports were alerted and regular news bulletins announced progress in the search to recover the machine. Coded messages and disguised telephone calls ensnared the police and Bletchley Park in a battle of wits but did not recover the machine, until it was eventually posted to TV presenter Jeremy Paxman at his BBC offices.
The theft of the machine was deemed to be the culmination of a hate campaign against the new director of Bletchley Park - a campaign that also included death threats to her.
