You work for British intelligence. Your office has secretly cracked the German Enigma code-A program you call ultra-Which allows
you to listen in on much of the secret German Communication. On Nov 12, 1940, you intercept German messages describing operation moonlight sonata- an air raid in great strength for the night of nov 14/15, 1940, against the cathedral and industrial city of Coventry. You have only days to act of the information. But anything you do will alert the Germans that you had foreknowledge of the raid-Probably from breaking their Enigma code- Germany will then change the code system that will eliminate any future information being retrieved. What facts must be considered
This actually happened. Or something like it. In fact, both Churchill and Alan Turing (computer wizard who decoded the Enigma Machine) saw clearly the dilemma they were in.
To let the raid go on without defense or opposition in their opinion was inhumane. They both felt they had to do something. In the end Churchill ordered that ambulances be sent and disguised in ways that made them invisible from the air. He could do no more. Later on, the game was to make anything they knew and took advantage of look like a matter of luck.
