# Conspiracy theories: Why the outlandish ones that don't even sound remotely real?

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theories-why-the-outlandish-ones-that-dont-even-sound-remotely-real/916360/111 "2021-03-07T00:59:37Z")

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> [@dtilque](#):
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> There were about 10,000 people employed at Bletchley Park and associated stations during WWII. Sounds like a lot of people to me. I’m going to guess they kept its secrets the same way the Manhattan Project kept its secret: not letting the vast majority of the workers know what they were working on

My dad had a friend that worked there, he came to America afterwards, my Dad had met him in the Pacific Theatre. Sure, they knew they worked on code breaking and stuff, but not Enigma. The Nazis had a lot of codes. Intercepted spy messages and the like.

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