How did they get over the catch-22 that if they used the information that Nazis could guess it came from breaking the code but if they didn’t use the information there was no point in having it.
EDIT. I tagged this as mathematics because the movie suggests the use of mathematics, but does not explain how you use mathematics to do it (it’s a movie!). I am wondering for example if they made a slight tweak to random search patterns so that they still looked random but “coincidentally” found what we already knew was there. It would be extremely hard to detect the difference between a genuinely random pattern and then almost genuinely random pattern.
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American code breakers learned where Admiral Yamamoto’s plane was going to be. It was actually quite a distance from the nearest US air base, and very long range fighters were needed to reach and destroy his plane. Afterward, to keep the Japanese from becoming suspicious, they had to fly patrols along the same route for a while so the Japanese would think it was simply very bad luck for them that the Americans were patrolling that area and just happened to find Yamamoto’s airplane.
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