Bertrand, Gustave

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Bertrand, Gustave (1896–1976),head of the French Army decipher service in the 1930s. He ran a useful spy— Hans-Thilo Schmidt—who provided early details of ENIGMA prefixes, thus helping Poles and French to break some ENIGMA traffic. Bertrand continued work on ENIGMA in southern France, near Uzès, 1940–2, lived under house arrest in Paris January– August 1944, and survived to become a general and to write Enigma (Paris, 1973).

M. R. D. Foot

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