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Camp X was established December 6, 1941 by the BSC's chief, Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian from Winnipeg, Manitoba and a close confidant of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The camp was first opened for the purpose of training American COI (forerunner to the CIA) agents to be dropped behind enemy lines as saboteurs and spies, at a time when the US was forbidden by an Act of Congress to be involved in World War Two.
Camp X trained over five hundred AlliedIn general, allies are people or groups that have joined an alliance and are working together to achieve some common purpose. In general English usage, those who share a common goal and whose work toward that goal is complementary may be viewed as allies secret agents, including British intelligence operative Ian FlemingIan Lancaster Fleming ( May 28, 1908 August 12, 1964) was a British author, best remembered for the James Bond series of novels. Biography Born in Mayfair, London, Ian Fleming was the younger brother of the travel writer, Peter Fleming. He was educated at, later famous for his James BondFor the ornithologist see James Bond (ornithologist). The fictional character James Bond is a sophisticated British spy, invented by and appearing in books by Ian Fleming (and later Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Raymond Benson and Charlie Higson). Fleming books. The Camp X pupils were schooled in a wide variety of special techniques including silent killing, sabotage, partisan support & recruitment methods for resistance movements, demolition, map reading, skilled use of various weapons, and Morse codeMorse code is a system of representing letters, numbers and punctuation marks by means of a code signal sent intermittently. It was developed by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail in 1835. Morse code is an early form of digital communication; however, unlike mo.
One of the unique features of Camp X was Hydra, a highly sophisticated telecommunications center. Given the name by the Camp X operators, Hydra was invaluable for both coding and decoding information in relative safety from the prying ears of German radio observers. The camp was an excellent location for the safe transfer of code due to the topography of the land; Lake Ontario made it an excellent site for picking up radio signals from the UK. Hydra also had direct access via land lines to OttawaThis article is about the capital city of Canada. For other meanings see Ottawa (disambiguation). City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ( In Detail) ( In Detail) Motto: Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant Area: 2,778. Population Total (2001) Cdn. CD Rank: Cdn. Rank:, New YorkNew York is a state in the northeastern United States whose U. postal abbreviation is NY . It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City. History See: History of New York New York was one of the thirteen col and Washington for telegraph and telephone communications.
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