Arrest Made in Theft of Encoder
From Times Wire Reports
A 50-year-old man was under arrest in Britain in connection with the theft of a World War II encoding machine, police said. The machine, used by the Nazis to send top-secret messages, was stolen over the weekend from the Bletchley Park estate northwest of London where the code was broken by a team of mathematicians, linguists and chess champions. The machine itself was not recovered. The suspect was being questioned, but charges had not been filed, police said.
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