# Did the Allies knowingly send men to death to avoid revealing the cracked enigma?

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**Created:** [May 16, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-allies-knowingly-send-men-to-death-to-avoid-revealing-the-cracked-enigma/109375 "2002-05-16T13:24:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-allies-knowingly-send-men-to-death-to-avoid-revealing-the-cracked-enigma/109375/41 "2002-05-18T10:59:42Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \*  
> Really? When did the book acquire its tawdry reputation and how did it do so? I’ve seen nothing that contradicts anything I’ve read in it.

I don’t know the details, but it simply isn’t cited by historians these days. And, for example, in his _The Griffen_ (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), having noted several specific absurdities where it touches on atomic bomb research, Kramish notes:

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> It is no wonder that the latest British edition of _A Man Called Intrepid_ carries the publisher’s warning: “This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are … products of the author’s imagination.”

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