Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

“The Washington Monument is down?!”

After hearing the news, President Wilkie did not react much. After all, the White House had been bombed before, the Pentagon, and the Lincoln Memorial had all been bombed. Now that the Washington Monument collapsed, it was not an earth-shattering event.

With a helpless sigh, President Wilkie called for William Joseph Donovan.

The newly established intelligence coordination department was officially named the "Strategic Intelligence Service". Donovan used flexible social skills to recruit a large group of elites. There are well-known scholars from Harvard University, famous poets, wealthy businessmen, bankers, film directors, playwrights, etc., all of them are prominent figures, all of them are shrewd, capable, and have great powers.

Donovan completely ignored the relevant administrative regulations and recruited talents of all identities. Whether they were thieves or people with different political leanings, he didn't care at all, as long as they had a certain skill. Most of the people recruited know nothing about intelligence work, and they don't even have the simplest institutional knowledge of receiving daily work supplies. But Donovan doesn't care about this at all. He wants to train these "potential people" into top-notch intelligence personnel through formal training. In some secret schools, British intelligence experts serve as teachers, teaching people from the Special Operations Division of the Intelligence Agency various covert action skills, including mapping, assassination, demolition and combat, etc.

In a short period of time, the staff of the Office of Strategic Intelligence surged from the initial few dozen to more than 600, with offices of various sizes in many places in Washington and New York. But Donovan wasn't satisfied yet. He wanted to double the size of the organization.

The work of the Strategic Intelligence Service is divided into two parts: public and covert. Public activities mainly involve scholars conducting specialized analysis and research on intelligence, while covert work mainly refers to sabotage and subversive activities behind enemy lines. The Intelligence Bureau is composed of five professional agencies: the Secret Intelligence Service, which is engaged in espionage work; the Special Operations Service, which is engaged in sabotage and subversive activities; the Counterintelligence Service, which is engaged in espionage prevention; the Psychological Operations Service, which produces and disseminates black propaganda; and the Training Service , to train guerrilla units that break into enemy-occupied areas. In addition, there are also logistics departments such as financial management, communication, and personnel recruitment.

The Office of Strategic Intelligence developed rapidly. Donovan continued to provide President Wilkie with various intelligence reports. The President was still very satisfied with his work.

Except for one thing.

"How is the work of deciphering the German code? Is there any progress?" In fact, the matter of deciphering the enemy's code was not started after the establishment of the Strategic Intelligence Service. All previous intelligence agencies have put a lot of effort into this aspect. "If we had deciphered the German telegrams, we might have been able to prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor."

When mentioning this matter, Donovan's face was full of shame. They intercept hundreds of German military messages every day, but so far they have not been able to decipher even one message, let alone decipher it, and they have not even figured out the keywords.

You must know that the top mathematicians and cryptologists in the United States are gathered in their deciphering studio. They can be said to be absolute authorities in this field. In universities, each of them is a well-known senior professor-level expert. But just like this, a group of people have been working day and night for several months, and they haven't even found out a single clue. This is really frustrating.

"Is it impossible to crack the German secret code?" After a long period of finding nothing, this thought flashed through everyone's mind.

But this is a bit of a paradox, because anyone who has studied mathematics and understands cryptography knows that there is no cryptosystem in the world that cannot be deciphered.

There are only two possibilities. One is that the German army is frequently changing its password system, and the other is that the rules for setting German passwords are quite complex, so complex that the human brain cannot think of them at all.

Everyone is leaning towards the first possibility, but they don't know that the cryptography team of the German intelligence department uses the most advanced computer equipment in mankind, with a computing speed of hundreds of thousands of operations per second. No matter how hard humans try, how can they surpass the computing speed of computers? How many people are needed to manually calculate and decipher the passwords that are summarized after hundreds of thousands of operations per second?

Coupled with the fact that the German army changed its encryption system every six months or so, these measures were enough to collapse the enemy's deciphering department.

Since the beginning of the war, or to be precise since a long time ago, the German code has never been deciphered. This is a very terrible problem. If the German army's code cannot be deciphered, our own side will not be able to accurately obtain the strategic trends of high-level German officials, and will be in a passive state.

President Wilkie looked a little ugly when he heard the news that he still found nothing. "Do you need to send more manpower or allocate funds to purchase equipment?"

Chief Donovan shook his head. "Mr. President, this is not a problem of shortage of manpower or insufficient equipment. Dr. Jones, who is responsible for deciphering work in the bureau, said that he felt that the German codes were like a terrible bottomless pit. No matter how many torches we threw down, we could not see it. Clear the whole picture at the bottom of the cave." I thought I had touched the threshold of the German code, but found that there was another threshold behind the threshold. After finally crossing this threshold, I saw another higher threshold waiting for you. This is very disappointing. A cycle of despair.

Due to frequent failures, the morale of the deciphering department is about to drop to the point of no return.

"I doubt that the German code will be deciphered until the end of the war."

President Wilkie frowned slightly when he heard Director Donovan's frustrated words. "Donovan, your idea is too pessimistic. The more times like this, the more we must strengthen our beliefs and the belief that we must win!"

Director Donovan shrugged, picked up the cup in front of him and drank it in one gulp. "Mr. President, you are right. We will definitely win this war. We must win."

It's a pity that victory does not depend on the most words. Just as they were talking about victory, the fire on Oahu was still burning, a cargo ship was slowly sinking into the sea on the east coast of the United States, and the destroyer in the distance was messing around. Throw depth bombs to drive away the German "Ghost" submarine; the German army in Turkmenistan captured another city. No matter how furious Stalin was and issued a fatal order not to take a step back, the German army still moved forward in an orderly manner.

However, it was impossible for Stalin to send additional troops to Turkmenistan. After all, there were only a few hundred thousand German troops in Turkmenistan, but there were millions of European troops assembled in Belarus and Ukraine. The nearest distance to Moscow was less than 400 kilometers, and the German army’s target It was obviously Moscow. Stalin naturally wanted to mobilize all the troops he could mobilize to stop the German attack. How could he still have the heart to care about Turkmenistan thousands of miles away.

Instead of sending more troops, a large number of troops were deployed to support Moscow, allowing the remaining troops to hold on to the end. Under such a situation, the morale of the Turkmen garrison inevitably plummeted.

Sometimes when the German army approached a city, before they could even drop leaflets, the defenders surrendered on their own initiative, and this phenomenon became more and more frequent.