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The So-Called Laundry Marks!

Markings found on the inside lining of a trouser pocket of the Somerton Man. These were referred to as the laundry marks.

 

THE SOMERTON MAN CODE:-

Aaaah, the code. Watch how we decode it!

This is a copy (above) of the actual Pigeon Code which is yet to be decrypted. This was found in a boarded up fireplace  years after it was sent. The page was still in the red capsule attached to the leg of a pigeon skeleton and is truly a one time pad where the sender burns his page when sent and the receiver burns his page when decrypted.

For an understanding of the functionality of the “One Time Pad” system search for “The Pigeon Code” which was used for message transfer during the “D Day Invasion of Normandy” to free France from German occupation.

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Having found a relevant third telephone number causing the meaning of the Ws inside the Ms to have a different task, the first and second lines of this message will be reviewed. The third and fourth lines will remain as is (unchanged). 

Please keep an eye out for the updates to this.

To the Code:-

The first two M’s looked from the start as not just M’s but a signal that there was some skipping involved as the middle of these M’s didn’t reach the bottom and what is more important is that they had deliberately been written this way. The later M’s were clearly just M’s for Message.

The 4 lines of the message text are basically 8 letters long with some other letters added before and after, where required, for an action to be done.

As “One Time Pad” codes need both a pad and a key, in this case the pad is the cigarette packet itself, and the key is the “Laundry Marks” in the trousers. i.e. 1171/7 (see the Laundry Marks section above). The 1171 indicates that this is a message for/from the Army Club. And the /7 indicates a movement of 7 places.

The only difference here is that the people used this “One Time Pad” code many times, not just the once.

The first 2 lines of the code use the cigarette packet writing in the top line Army Club, then the block to the left of the shield, then the lower text block.

The second 2 lines of the code use the top line Army Club, then the block to the right of the shield, then the lower text.

Godfrey Phillips started making and packaging Army Club Cigarettes under license in Australia in 1930 and the code participants were operating in Australia so an Australian packet was used.
The P is on the side panel. As it’s the only P on the packet it guarantees the only option is an Australian manufactured Army Club pack.

As the number 7 appears after the slash on the laundry marks, you move 7 letter spaces in the direction of the arrow from the originating letter. Military usually went left, right, left, etc.

(I think they now start on the right).

At the half way point the X and large left arrow means switch to left.

Also of note:- It is unlikely the writer would disguise her name as the sender in/of the code and then write her phone number in normal text mode on the same page, so the phone number found written by Police had to be written later for some later reason as a reference note.

OK, then let’s break it down!

The methodology is consistent across the whole code, and that is to start at the first occurrence of each code letter on the packet and move in the direction of the arrow.

To download a copy of this code page as a picture, click here:- Code

 

Top Line:-

<-  The first R in the top code line is the second letter in Army. As the arrow points left you go backwards. The r starts at A, then d (in Limited), then e, then t, then i, then m, then the seventh letter to the left is i. So R becomes I.

->  The G in the top code line is the G in Virginia. As the arrow points right you go forwards. The G starts at I, then N, then I, then A, then C in Cavanders, then a, then the seventh letter to the right is v. So G becomes v.

<-  The O in the top code line is the O in “THE MARK OF”. As the arrow points left you go backwards. O starts at K, then R, then A, then M, then E, then H, then the seventh letter to the left is T. So O becomes T.

->  The A in the top code line is the first letter in Army. As the arrow points right you go forwards. A starts at r, then m, then y, then C, then l, then u, then the seventh letter to the right is b. So A becomes B.

<-  The B in the top code line is the b in Club. As the arrow points left you go backwards. The b starts at u, then l, then C, then y, then m, then r, then the seventh letter to the left is A. So B becomes A.

->  The second A in the top code line is the first letter in Army. As the arrow points right you go forwards. A starts at r, then m, then y, then C, then l, then u, then the seventh letter to the right is b. So A becomes B.

<-  The second B in the top code line is the b in Club. As the arrow points left you go backwards. B starts at u, then l, then C, then y, then m, then r, then the seventh letter to the left is A. So B becomes A.

->  The D in the top code line is the first letter N in DISTINCTION. As the arrow points right you go forwards. D starts at I, then S, then T, then I, then N, then C, then the seventh letter to the right is T. So D becomes T.

 

Second Line:-

T = Transmit

<-  The B in the second code line is the b in Club. As the arrow points left you go backwards. B starts at u, then l, then C, then y, then m, then r, then the seventh letter to the left is A. So B becomes A.

->  The I in the second code line is the I in CREST IS. As the arrow points right you go forwards. I starts at S, then T, then H, then E, then M, then A, then the seventh letter to the right is R. So I becomes R.

<-  The M in the second code line is the third letter in Army. As the arrow points left you go backwards. The m starts at r, then A, then d (in Limited), then e, then t, then i, then the seventh letter to the left is m. So M becomes M.

->  The P in the second code line is the first letter in PHILLIPS on the side panel. As the arrow points right you go forwards. P starts at H, then I, then L, then L, then I, then P, then the seventh letter to the right is S. So P becomes S.

<-  The A in the second code line is the A in Army. As the arrow points left you go backwards. A starts at the d (in Limited), then e, then t, then i, then m, then i, then the seventh letter to the left is L. So A becomes L.

->  The N in the second code line is the first letter N in DISTINCTION. As the arrow points right you go forwards. N starts at C, then T, then I, then O, then N, then S (in SANDHURST), then the seventh letter to the right is A. So N becomes A.

<-  The E in the second code line is the E in THE CR…. As the arrow points left you go backwards. E starts at H, then T, then b at the end of Club, then u, then l, then C, then the seventh letter to the left is y. So E becomes Y.

->  The T in the second code line is the T in THE CR….. As the arrow points right you go forwards. T starts at H, then E, then C, then R, then E, then S, then the seventh letter to the right is T. So T becomes T.

P = PRIORITY

 

X = Change required

= All to the left now.

 

Third Line:-

<-  The L in the third code line is the l in Club. As the arrow points left you go backwards. The l starts at C, then y, then m, then r, then A, then d (in Limited), then the seventh letter to the left is e. So L becomes E.

<-  The I in the third code line is the I in THE FIRM. As the arrow points left you go backwards. I starts at F, then E, then H, then T, then b in Club, then u, then the seventh letter to the left is l. So I becomes L.

<-  The A in the third code line is the A in Army. As the arrow points left you go backwards. A starts at the d (in Limited), then e, then t, then i, then m, then i, then the seventh letter to the left is L. So A becomes L.

<-  The B in the third code line is the b in Club. As the arrow points left you go backwards. B starts at u, then l, then C, then y, then m, then r, then the seventh letter to the left is A. So B becomes A.

<-  The O in the third code line is the O in OF THREE. As the arrow points left you go backwards. O starts at M in FIRM, then R, then I, then F, then E, then H, then the seventh letter to the left is T. So O becomes T.

<-  The A in the third code line is the A in Army. As the arrow points left you go backwards. A starts at the d (in Limited), then e, then t, then i, then m, then i, then the seventh letter to the left is L. So A becomes L.   **

<-  The I in the third code line is the I in THE FIRM. As the arrow points left you go backwards. I starts at F, then E, then H, then T, then b in Club, then u, then the seventh letter to the left is l. So I becomes L.  **

<-  The A in the third code line is the A in Army. As the arrow points left you go backwards. A starts at the d (in Limited), then e, then t, then i, then m, then i, then the seventh letter to the left is L. So A becomes L.  **

QC = CQ (or call originator, from). You may have heard a call something like “CQ CQ this is Shotgun”. This is the same in TeleTypewriter Systems.

** In NTX normally the number of repeater stations a message goes through is indicated by numbers. If it goes through 3 you would see 3 3 3 or 3-3-3. But because this code uses only letters from the cigarette packet (no numerals available), the 3’s are replaced by LLL (= Location Location Location)

Fourth Line:-

V = To

TT = US Navy/Marines TeleTypewriter Exchange System known as NTX.

<-  The M in the fourth code line is the m in Army. As the arrow points left you go backwards. M starts at r, then A, then the d (in Limited), then e, then t, then i, then the seventh letter to the left is m. So M becomes M.

<-  The T in the fourth code line is the T in THE FIRM. As the arrow points left you go backwards. T starts at b in Club, then u, then l, then C, then y, then m, then the seventh letter to the left is r. So T becomes R.

<-  The S in the fourth code line is the S in CENTURIES. As the arrow points left you go backwards. S starts at the E, then I, then R, then U, then T, then N, then the seventh letter to the left is E. So S becomes E.

<-  The A in the fourth code line is the A in Army. As the arrow points left you go backwards. A starts at the d (in Limited), then e, then t, then i, then m, then i, then the seventh letter to the left is L. So A becomes L.

<-  The M in the fourth code line is the m in Army. As the arrow points left you go backwards. M starts at r, then A, then the d (in Limited), then e, then t, then i, then the seventh letter to the left is m. So M becomes M.

<-  The S in the fourth code line is the S in CENTURIES. As the arrow points left you go backwards. S starts at the E, then I, then R, then U, then T, then N, then the seventh letter to the left is E. So S becomes E.

<-  The T in the fourth code line is the T in THE FIRM. As the arrow points left you go backwards. T starts at b in Club, then u, then l, then C, then y, then m, then the seventh letter to the left is r. So T becomes R.

<-  The G in the fourth code line is the G in VIRGINIA. As the arrow points left you go backwards. G starts at R, then I, then V, then E in SIZE, then Z, then I, then the seventh letter to the left is S. So G becomes S.

AR = End of Transmission or No Reply Required (Same thing)

 

In my opinion the top line is “In Vessel To BABAT”
(BABAT is on the Solo River in Java, Indonesian) so the arms in line 2 were heading for Major William Jestyn Moulds MBE to receive before transfer to the US Military.

In line 2 “ARMS Left America Yesterday’s Tide”  ##                      (see note ## below this section)

In line 3 CQ = From, and “ELLAT” is Jessica Ellen Thomson (aka Ella) and “LLL” signifies 3 relays to the recipient.   (Location Location Location)
Usually the number of relays would be shown as 3 3 3 or 3-3-3 but this code is only capable of using letters.

In line 4 the V = To and the TT indicates the use of the US Navy Teletypewriter Exchange System (NTX) then follows the actual receiver “MRELMERS” i.e. MR ELMER S.

The “AR” underlined means a reply is not requested (or end of transmission) depending on which manual you use.

## USS Indianapolis left San Diego (California) at this time with half the Uranium U235 bound for Tinian Island in the Marianas Group where the atomic devices were being assembled and readied.

The purpose of the seven Kensitas Cigarettes inside the Army Club pack will be described in a further post.

They were included to point to a person much the same as the items in the pockets of the man on the beach. Further explanation will be included when these items are outlined later.

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By Alan Hamill

What happened on Somerton Beach and in Adelaide from the 1930’s to the 1980’s?

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Poor old George! Murdered because of his knowledge of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and his ethnicity!

Nope, it was because his name was “George” Marshall, which was the same as the US General in charge of getting the nuclear deterrent into existence.

General George C Marshall was the US Army Chief of Staff and directed to make the atomic devices ready for urgent deployment into Europe.

“George” Marshall’s murder in a suburb of Sydney was to send a message to the US and its allies that the German War Machine was aware of the heirachy of the nuclear organisation and the quatrain number (23) was to demonstrate that they had inside information about the quantities of material required for those nuclear devices.

Joseph “George” Saul Haim Marshall

This is 34 year old Joseph “George” Saul Haim Marshall (below). His Hebrew name was Yosef Chaim Saul ben Yisroel.

George Marshall was born to Jewish parents in Malaya in 1910. He attended University in Paris. He was an avid “bookologist” and an expert scholar of the writings of Omar Khayyam. His private life could be classed as “troubled” or perhaps “eccentric”. It may have even been due to autism or schizophrenia, which doctors of the period would not have easily recognised. George was living at Potts Point at the time.

On the 19th of May 1945 (the day before it is believed George passed) his former Headmaster, who knew George well, stated that he found George in high spirits. He stated to the Coroner that George had a “first class philosophical mind!”

And the message:-

The trick was that there was no message in the text!
The message was the quatrain number itself!
It was to indicate the number of packages, or more precisely, pounds (lbs) of substance in that shipment.

It didn’t include the gas shipments or deposits.

There would be two shipments of Uranium (U235). One package would be 70lbs and another would be 72lbs in weight.
A third shipment would be 23lbs of Plutonium.
This would provide enough fissionable material for 1 “Little Boy” (142lbs) and enough fusionable material for 1 “Fatman” (23lbs).

Do these numbers sound familiar? Yes, quatrain 23 with “George” Marshall and quatrain 70 with Alf Boxall.
Is there one more ROK missing with quatrain 72 highlighted?

And some of this U235 would come from Mount Painter in the Flinders Ranges well north of Adelaide to top up a shortfall in US supplies due to the time it takes to process this material.

We know of at least 3 ROKs being used so far, possibly 4.

The ROK which surfaced for the second time around the 22nd of July 1949 was resurrected from someone’s wardrobe for the purpose of distraction to be used in an attempt to disguise a murder on or about November 30th 1948. But it wasn’t to be in New South Wales, it would be in Adelaide, South Australia.

The ROK that has been tied to this murder was reportedly handed to SAPOL by a Chemist named Freeman after Freeman’s Brother In Law remembered a book fitting the description was found 8 months earlier in the back seat of Freeman’s car about the 20th November 1948. The ROK apparently had been thrown there through an open window.

The 20th of November 1948 was when the Adelaide Air Show took place, and there was significant military presence with world wide Air Forces flying in for the event.

The 20th of November 1948 was also the day Reginald Bickford passed away at his home in Adelaide.

In the early stages of design of the “Little Boy” device it was thought that a black powder fuse device would be employed to start the nuclear reaction in the explosion. And what no better a person to discuss this with than the chemist who invented the timed detonator fuse system used for the mining industry. That would be Reginald Bickford?

Later it was decided that this fusing system, although designed to be time fixed to be accurate to no more variation than +/- 10 seconds for every yard of fuse used, this allowance was still too great a variance in a device falling towards a target. Something much more precise was needed.

The ROK mentioned above, however, was actually throw into the back tray tub of a utility belonging to a New South Wales bank officer also going by the name “Freeman” and being related to the man in the photo ID of H C Reynolds through the marriage of each to sisters.   

 

Later additions to the Coroner’s Report suggest that the back window of the car mentioned above was actually the rear tray of a utility truck, and to add to that, the person handing in the ROK may not have been a Chemist. We also now know who the “Brother In Law” was.

Reginald Bickford, the owner and manager of Bickford’s Group of Companies, mentioned above, died on the 20th of November 1948 in Adelaide and his death was investigated and certified by Coroner Cleland.

George Marshall was found at Athol Park on Taylor’s Bay, Mosman with a copy of a 20th May newspaper under his head, an opened ROK pencilled at Quatrain 23 squarely on his chest, a tin containing traces of a poison and a drink bottle fitted with a perforated lid to act as a sprinkler.

With George’s Jewish upbringing and his knowledge of the ROK, he would have known that he could not cleanse his own body before death, and that it would take 7 days after his death to cleanse anyone of his faith should they touch him. They would need a pre-prepared “Water of Expiation” or “Mei Niddah” administered initially on the placement of the body, on the 3rd day and again on the 7th day after George’s passing. So the sprinkler bottle was used by someone else to support the interaction he had with Dorothy Graham and her boyfriend Helmut Hendon. The ROK would infer a romantic termination.

The placement of the body may have been done by someone with significant knowledge of Judaism, given the cleansing bottle.

The Coroner did not question either Dorothy Graham’s landlady (detailed later with regard to Helmut Hendon) or the attending certifying doctor.

The location of the body of George Marshall was close to the Clifton Gardens Hotel where Jessica would give a copy of The Rubaiyat to Alf Boxall a few months later. The death of Marshall was reported in the newspaper and Jessica was living in Sydney at the time this occurred.

Jessica converted to Judaism about this time.

Athol Park is where the theosophist Bishop Charles Webster Leadbeater would “talk to nature” or “invoke the natural spirits of the area”.

“The Manor” was a Sydney mansion where Bishop Leadbeater would practice occult preachings. He called himself a part of the Liberal Catholic Group but it had little to do with true Catholicism, and he also nominated himself into Masonry and the Masonic protocols.

“The Manor” also served as lodgings for Neo-Nazi operatives using the strange goings on as cover for their presence in Sydney. Visiting German ships’ crews would use the Manor from time to time as well.

A large part of the financing for the purchase of “The Manor” was arranged (and likely contributed to) by Duncan MacDougall/McDougall (husband of Pakie), possibly as a taxation deduction and operations centre.

We also discuss Duncan, Augusta (Pakie) and Robin MacDougall later. Elsie May Liebke, Thomas Lawrence Keane and Elmer Sylvester Klein will feature in a later post as well.

Back to that same office in London again.

“Sir, General Fivestars to see you.”

“Thanks for coming over General.”

“What can I do for you son?”

“Would you show today’s authentication ple….thank you.

We’ve had another letter from Australia and they ask if we know of any Russian Operatives down their way at the moment. They say they’ve been hearing Russian chatter in the area.”

“Well yes and no son, you remember our last conversation about the movement of some substances to Babat, and the contacts you let me have?”

“I do.”

“Well some in the group are Israeli refugees. Because Israel has been a close ally to Russia for many years, Israeli children have been taught the Russian Language for quite a while now. And given that Germany has just surrendered in Europe there is an unhappy German splinter group still looking for these Jewish people who are working to help our ally Russia and the US itself.

A directive was given by Alfred Rosenberg before his execution that German Loyalists should seek out and destroy anyone giving aid against the Nazi Regime.

I would expect that any conversations they would have between each other would be in Russian as it would be extremely dangerous for them if they gave away their background by speaking in Hebrew. We, and by that I mean the US, are spending a lot of money at the moment keeping Russia on our side as an ally. We are having talks. You may have heard of a setup called Lend-Lease? Well these talks may see this funding stopped about June in the next year or so, maybe ’46.

We were thinking of ending the funding but then this Pacific Theatre opened up and we have deferred the talks again. And working in our favour is that Russia has been bickering with Japan for some years, and we hear they may declare war on Japan at any time. So, yes there are people speaking Russian in Australia at the moment, but they are doing the messaging about our shipping tasks.

Do you think you could word a response to the Australians telling them nothing about what we’re doing and everything about what we’re not doing? You know, tell them nothing, take them nowhere!”

“We can arrange that General, and thanks for dropping over.”

The Alf Boxall ROK he handed to his wife in June 1945. If the inscription was a woman’s name his service in the Army would be a walk in the park compared with what his wife would dish out to him for possessing a book of poetry from another woman.

 

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What happened on Somerton Beach and in Adelaide in 1948?

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In an office somewhere in London early 1921:-

“Sir, we’ve just received a letter from Australia with some troubling news.”

“Well then, out with it man, what’s the colony up to now? Do they want us to stop sending them felons?”

“No Sir, the letter is to advise us that they are disbanding the Australian Imperial Force as of the first of April, this coming April, next month, Sir.”

“They were all volunteers so I’d say they would be wanting to return to their families and previous lives. I suppose we shouldn’t interfere with anything to do with the governance of their country from over here.

Pity though, they did put in an admirable showing in Turkey and those other places.

That Light Horse lot will be remembered! The Fourth, the Fifth, the Seventh, the Eighth Regiments of the Light Horse Brigades in particular.”

“Indeed, Sir”

“Anyway, we did get a bit of a heads up that the various Australian Divisions were experiencing the repatriation of many of its members and subsequent manpower deficit. We know they have combined the Second and Third Divisions together, and the Fourth and Fifth Divisions together, so it wasn’t all that unexpected.

When I realised the Australians were returning, I thought I’d have an old sailing chum of mine to keep an eye on how things were happening out there. He has been keeping me up to date for several years.

I did think His Majesty’s interests would be well served for us to maintain some oversight of what goes on from time to time on the other side of the world. I think I’ll get my chum to head up a new group as he already has the feel for what’s required.

What we’ll do is to quietly use some of our citizens to keep an eye out for us. You know, just a little group of loyal Brits and ex-Brits, or refugees we have provided safe haven and new identities to, that can just go about their business and if something were to be building just under the surface they would be well placed to let us know about it. You know, many ears, many eyes.

The people best placed to do this task would be nurses, doctors, chemists, hoteliers, people of importance and standing in the community, and a few with a particular expertise in their field.”

“Military, Sir?”

“No, No, No, we don’t need this out in the open. Our military is always under scrutiny so we’ll leave them out of this for the time being.

And I think we’ll use the cover of local Infectious Diseases Hospitals and Asylums for the apparent legitimacy of this group. No-one really wants to be around these places for too long and it doesn’t really have to be at these hospitals, just look like it.”

“How will we refer to this group Sir? Will we need codenames?”

“No, we’ll just let the people go about their roles, no lights, no fanfare. As for communications, we can’t bring attention to them so we will use the old favourite of newspaper advertisements and the like.

I’ve always tried to keep things as simple as possible and one of my likes is the element of keeping things hidden in plain sight, you know what I mean?

Keep things hidden in plain sight.”

He looks down at his desk for a bit and strokes his left eyebrow with his yellow stained fingers.

“To those who need to know, and only them, we’ll refer to this group and their roles as The Army Club”

“The Army Club, Sir?”

“That’s what it will be.

And by the way, if you should see any correspondence from Australia marked M1171 make sure you let me know immediately, urgently.

My old chum has a yacht carrying that registration number and he wants to talk to me about it?

Now I have some work to do, people to contact.

Dismissed!”

“Sir”.

The Adelaide Yacht

The wheels fall off a bit:-

Unfortunately this group got off to a bit of a rocky start with a very public divorce case between Harold Bickford and his wife Tessa Bickford. Perhaps they were trying a bit too hard too early. Mrs Bickford was accused of having a very full dance card with at least 4 men continually fronting up to do the horizontal waltz with her.

Tessa wanted a quiet legal separation but the publicity and depth of the case wouldn’t allow this to happen. She was found to have entertained Napier Kyffin Birks (Prosper Thomson’s future boss), Frank Eric Hamilton (a vigneron from near Glenelg), Nathan Fryberg (a traveller from Melbourne) and General John Macquarie Antill (Adjutant General of Adelaide) on many, many occasions. It’s likely Napier Kyffin Birks was not a dancer in this waltz but more of a debriefer (pardon the play on words again).

When Teresa’s motives were discovered she had to be sidelined and it was hoped that creating a simple divorce proceedings case would let every player out of the spotlight, but it wasn’t to be. Teresa copped a bucketing publicly but she likely had done her bit “for King and Country”.

      

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Teresa Veronica Murphy (maiden name) would later move to Melbourne and run one of the largest red light, gambling and SP Bookmaking operations in Victoria at the time.

During these investigations it was suggested “Charlie” Webb may have been a nitkeeper on the door of such a den in Melbourne, a Baccarat den. Had he known Tessa beforehand? Did he work for the Bickfords?

She would have likely also maintained contact with her former husband Harold Bickford (the Head of Stewards and CEO of the South Australian Jockey Club) for business advice. (What are the odds?)

Remaining 20’s and 30’s would go off quietly (on the surface anyway) with The Army Club going about its business. It must have been doing some work as there were regular advertisements in papers from almost every state and in several languages. They were generally job ads but must have had a message in them somewhere. Perhaps the wages with the slash? Something to look at later hey?

The M1171 would prove a valuable asset as it looked like a regular phone number. As the newspapers were not syndicated yet it couldn’t have been an account number for the placement of the advertisements, nor could it be a national number as all phone numbers related to an exchange switchboard in a specific geographic area being allocated the letter prefix and it would be impossible for them to be standardised across the country.

Fast Forward to about November 1944, same office in London:-

“Sir, General Fivestars to see you.”

“Enter!

Good Morning General, how can I help?”

“Good Morning, I need to make contact with someone in Australia to do some work for the US in this Pacific Theatre thingy and it needs to be soon if I could.

At the moment we have little trust in the Australian messaging system as there have been some unwanted leaks, plus we need to make this contact on the QT. We’re still working with Australia but this may be more important than they can manage to run safely if you get my drift.

The other issue preventing us from informing them of our intentions is that Australia is not a signatory to the UK’s and US’s Quebec Agreement we’ve just recently ratified about Nuclear Weapon Development.”

“Indeed, but first could I have your level one authentication for today please? I don’t mean to be rude, just, you know how it is.

Thank you, yes I have such a contact. We refer to him, or should I say them, as the Army Club.

Would you mind letting me into the story so I can ensure it doesn’t place my operation in jeopardy by doing so?”

Harold Bickford

About the war in Europe:-

“As you are aware, we are developing a nuclear system quietly but as fast and heavily as we can for use to end the German activities, and we thank the UK and yourself for the help that’s being provided for both our country’s benefit in that direction.

We’re processing the base materials as quickly as we can in the US but it looks like we may need to obtain some yellowcake from Australia.

Mount Painter in South Australia will provide more Uranium Ore and we’re installing four Denver #30 Sub-A Floatation Machines at the Broken Hill Ltd plant in Port Pirie near Adelaide and will have another machine sitting ready in case of breakdown.

We’ll then fly the trays of Yellowcake to the UK and put it through your processing facility at Flintshire’s Rhydymwyn Valley Works near Mold in Wales.

I’ll let you know the details a little later when we get a better grasp of time frames.”

Later about the War in the Pacific:-

Up until Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) on May 8th 1945 (and for several weeks after) the intention to use a nuclear deterrent was still aligned towards Germany.

“Sir, General Fivestars”.

“General”

“Now that Germany is quiet we need to turn our eyes towards the Pacific.

Our US Chiefs intend to make a very big push at the heart of the Japanese War machine, and at the heart of Japan itself, at the end of this winter when clouds are beginning to thin. In comparison to what we have done so far in this war effort, the logistics and manpower needed in the primary mission we’re talking about are minuscule, maybe microscopic. I can tell you it’s something the world will remember for a long time and should bring this Pacific Action to an end quickly. At least that is our hope.

We have been sending elements of this equipment to Australia in boxes marked “Chevrolet-General Motors” as one of the design centres we have is beside the GM Plant so it’s not difficult. If we need something more urgently, the Air Force drop the item at the nearby RAAF strip and run it across.

As we speak the actual plan, and the machinery to do it, haven’t been fully designed or manufactured yet.

It will be touch and go if we’ll be ready in time.

Little Boy.

Fat Man.      

And it is this readiness where we need your connections again.

As well as silent delivery of some of this equipment and materials, we have a secondary mission and it requires building a stockpile of Cyanogen Chloride Gas, Tear Gas, Mustard Gas and Phosgene Gas at a place called BABAT on the Solo River in Java from where it can be quickly deployed to an airbase we will be establishing on Morotai then on to Tinian in the Marianas Islands Group.

 

Major William Jestyn Moulds MBE has done gas handling training.

Should our primary mission not be ready in time we will quickly move to deploy this secondary action.

The gases will be sourced quietly, and primarily, in Australia and your team will load and deliver them to a Major William Jestyn Moulds personally at BABAT.

 

Here is BABAT:-

We will still also be sourcing an amount of Yellowcake from Australia that we may ship through this arrangement and on to Wales or Washington for preparation.

We don’t have to ship much of these mineral substances at all as the project only uses minimal quantities but it will make a substantial result in the Pacific area.

We’re building two models of armaments and we call one “Little Boy” and the other is “Fat Man”.

“Little Boy” will require us to make two shipments. One shipment will be seventy pounds in weight and the other will be 72 pounds in weight. The material will be Uranium and we need one hundred and forty two pounds per weapon.

It takes about six weeks to produce enough explosive for each one and then put it together, so it is an ongoing activity.

“Fat Man” only requires twenty three pounds of a processed type of Uranium called Plutonium to be complete.

Should the first mission be successful, your team will recover this redundant gas stockpile back to the safety of Australia.

The cargos will not to be listed on any shipping manifest.

We asked Australia for an officer somewhere near our operations in Morotai and they nominated said Major William Jestyn Moulds to be our man. He had training in gas handling and deployment a few years ago. He is expecting to get some deliveries, he just hasn’t been advised what he’ll get and when.”

“Ok, here’s how we do it General.

Sir, if you could place an advertisement in the Motor Car section of the main newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia you will get through to them. Just make up a legitimate looking ad about a car for sale, leave some method of getting in touch with you, and at the end leave the notation M1171. They check these ads regularly.

To be doubly sure, place a second similar ad directly after the first and mark the end contact as Henley Beach W9048. Where these people see a W they look for a switch in the text. In this case the number reversed is 8409 which is a contact number we know of in Henley Beach if you need it. The contact at Henley Beach 8409 is one of our people and he’s got a small workshop there. The number is partied up with a legitimate business so you just have to play that one by ear.

If perchance you don’t get the required response quickly, let me know as I believe they may have someone in the Postmaster General’s Department that we can call on to get a copper wire connection done. You would see him referred to as just PMG. Armed with nothing more than an old hand piece and two alligator clips he could literally get you anything you would want to know. And with us recommending governments recall all tunnel maps of their cities, local knowledge is vital.”

“Thank you, The US appreciates your assistance with this.”