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D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm
The D-Day ''Daily Telegraph'' crossword security alarm arose in 1944 when codenames related to the D-Day plans appeared as solutions in crosswords in the popular British newspaper, ''The Daily Telegraph''. The inclusion of the codewords was initially suspected by the British Secret Services to be a form of espionage.
==Background==
Leonard Dawe, ''Telegraph'' crossword compiler, created those puzzles, at his home in Leatherhead. Dawe was also headmaster of Strand School, which during the Second World War was evacuated to Effingham in Surrey. Next to the school was a big camp of USA and Canadian troops getting ready for D-Day, and security round the camp was lax. There was much contact between the schoolboys and soldiers, during which soldiers' talk including D-Day codewords was heard and learnt by many of the schoolboys.
On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in a ''Daily Telegraph'' crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer attached to the Canadian Army, to investigate the crossword. Tweedsmuir, the son of John Buchan the author, later commented: "We noticed that the crossword contained the word "Dieppe", and there was an immediate and exhaustive inquiry which also involved MI5. But in the end it was concluded that it was just a remarkable coincidence – a complete fluke".
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