- Peter Calvocoressi
Peter Calvocoressi (born in 1912) is a British political author and a former cryptanalyst for the
Royal Air Force duringWorld War II .Early years
Calvocoressi was born in
Karachi , nowadays inPakistan , to a family of Greek origins from the islandChios related to theRallis ; a notable political family in Greece. When he was three months old, the family moved toLiverpool ,England .At
Eton College he translated the "Abide with Me " hymn into Latin. He spoke many European languages including Greek, Latin, Italian, German and French.Calvocoressi was at
Balliol College, Oxford from 1931 to 1934. There was influenced by the teachings ofLewis Bernstein Namier .Career
Calvocoressi is known for his writing on Ultra Intelligence at
Bletchley Park and for his collecting evidence for the trials of war criminals in theNuremberg trials . Later he became chairman of theLondon Library . [ [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000006184,00.html "Peter Calvocoressi"] - Penguin Group]In 1940, he joined
RAF Intelligence working atBletchley Park decrypting German signals from their Enigma encryption system to produce intelligence known asUltra . Subsequently, he was hired bythe Pentagon to assist in theNuremberg war crimes trials .Calvocoressi stood as Liberal candidate for Parliament in 1945. From 1949 to 1954 he wrote annual survey for
Royal Institute of International Affairs Between 1962 and 1971, Calvocoressi was a member of the Working Group on Minorities, a
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights . In the same period he was chairman of the Africa Bureau of theInternational Institute for Strategic Studies .In 1990, he was awarded an
honorary doctorate by theOpen University .Bibliography
* [http://www.librarything.com/author/calvocoressipeter Full list of Peter Calvocoressi's books] - librarything.com
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History of cryptography Notes
References
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=FnPVP7Fq8MqG1vyQLxf9ZwpyJ4XnPQY1GRkhwYpv9L1bpZ21q72P!-1454462376!1280456806?a=o&d=5000158183 "Interview with Peter Calvocoressi"] by Roger Adelson
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