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RALPH ERSKINE is a retired barrister in Northern Ireland who has written extensively on codebreaking and signals intelligence. He is the editor, with Michael Smith, of Action This Day: Bletchley Park From the Breaking of the Enigma Code to the Birth of the Modern Computer (2001) – reviewed in this journal, 2.1 (Summer 2002): 123. His work in progress includes a number of articles on Bletchley Park codebreakers in the massive New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press), which is to be published in 2004 in conventional form and on the Internet.

BURKHARD JÄHNICKE, executive director of the International Intelligence History Association from 1998 until 1999, studied history, law, and political science at Hamburg University. For several year; he worked as lecturer at the Department of Business Law at Hamburg University. Jähnicke, who is currently working as a journalist, holds a Ph.D. from Hamburg University. His book Washington und Berlin zwischen den Kriegen. Die Mixed Claims Commission in den transatlantischen Beziehungen, which includes the history of the famous sabotage cases Black Tom and Kingsland, is in print.

KEVIN CONLEY RUFFNER is a historian with the History Staff of the Central Intelligence Agency since 1991. He is the author of numerous articles and books on military and intelligence topics, including the recently-declassified book of documents, Forging an Intelligence Partnership: CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1945-49. He is currently working on a study of the U.S. Army in occupied Berlin. In researching this article, Ruffner appreciates the assistance of William Cunliffe at the National Archives in locating OSS personnel records that had been transferred to NARA.