HOY, OF “40 0B,” IS DEAD
KEPT WAR SECRETS
LONDON, Dec. 16
The man who knew the answers to most of the war’s riddles, Mr. Hugh Cleland Hoy, formerly private secretary to the Director of Naval Intelligence, lias died in Charing Cross 1 Hospital—only a few hundred yards from “40 0.8.,” the secret room in the Admiralty where he worked.
Mr. Hugh Hoy decoded enemy wireless messages, deciphered spies’ letters, solved mysteries of suspicious cables. He died with his lips still sealed. lie wrote a. hook called “40 G.B.—Or How the War was Won.” But it told only part of his story’. / Its publication was slopped in May, 1932, by the Admiralty, who, according to Mr. Hoy, “wished to ascertain whether it contained any information it would not be in the public interest, to reveal.” It was issued four months later, after alterations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18954, 3 March 1936, Page 2
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