Chancers

Scandal, Blackmail, and the Enigma Code

New Hardback Illustrated

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Conmen Monty Newton and Rodolphe Lemoine were involved in various scams around the world, including blackmailing a rich Kashmiri Rajah following a honey-trap operation. The trial became one of the most scandalous in British history. Drawing on previously secret government files Barbara Jeffery shows the extent of their scheming as well as Lemoine’s connection with French intelligence, where he helped obtain early Polish mathematicians’ work on the Enigma code.

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