Lifting the veil of secrecy: Meet the female code-breakers of WWII

By Charlotte Lytton, for CNN


November 11, 2013 -- Updated 1745 GMT (0145 HKT)

(CNN) -- "This is Norway checker," echoed the voice through the scrambler. "I have a good stop for you in Stavanger."

Nobody on the outside world could have known what she meant.

But inside Bletchley Park, a World War II code-breaking enclave in the English countryside of Buckinghamshire, 18-year-old Ruth Bourne had discovered a vital piece of intelligence.


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Bletchley Park was once Britain's best kept secret, with all activity undertaken there strictly hidden for three decades after the war ended.




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Margaret pictured today in front of the rebuilt Colossus machine at The National Museum of Computing.


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