Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

At 05:28 PM 1/26/96 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>jim bell writes:
>> (For the historically-impaired:  Coventry was/is an English town (small 
>> city?) perhaps most famous from the Lady Godiva legend...but I digress...    
>>  British found out, I guess through Ultra, that it was going to be bombed.  
>> Telling the inhabitants would have saved many lives, but (possibly) alerted 
>> the Germans that Enigma had been broken.  British made the correct choice:  
>> Let the city get bombed without (much?) warning.  The value of keeping the 
>> broken-ness of Ultra a secret far outweighed the value of Coventry.)
>
>The current claim is that, in fact, there was no advance warning about
>Coventry and that the claims that there was are unsubstantiated.

Extremely odd!  Why distribute the claim, if it were false?!?  Hmmmmm.....  
And/or if the claim was falsely made by some non-governmental organization, 
why not an immediate and forceful denial?

Color me confused.