His demonstration that the Latin word rumor, almost universally translated as �rumour�, could also mean �report� enabled him to point out that the �revolution inaugurated by Bletchley�s crypt- analysts in 1940 was a revolution in degree rather than in kind�. There was personal experience too in his view that historians had underestimated the significance of intelligence-gathering in the past because �sensible intelligence services seek to keep quiet about their activities�.
another obit in The Times, this for John Prestwich, of Bletchley.
