By Oberleutnant Waldemar Werther.
"During the period of preparation for the establishment of the intercept equipment of the Air Force in 1936, the first State employees intended for cryptanalysis (who were all of them civilians up to the outbreak of the war) were sent to the permanent intercept posts of the Army in the East for the purpose of basic training. The results of this training were unsatisfactory because the Army was reticent in releasing even the most elementary information, and furthermore, because the individuals sent lacked in most cases the necessary qualifications for their work; the personnel officials made their selections on anything but a proper basis, and appointed many persons who turned out to be completely unsuitable for the work of a cryptanalyst. The creation of a capable and successful cryptanalytic group was accomplished only in the course of the following years of tiresome work, without outside assistance, and through an internal development achieved by dropping numerous unsatisfactory elements.
In the summer of 1937, four cryptanalysts were working on Soviet traffic at the Cryptanalytic Bureau of the Air Force (Chi-Stelle). The other Eastern powers were either treated very superficially, largely as a side issue by our Soviet section, or not processed at all. The cryptanalytic groups of the outstations of the Air Force Intercept Service (cover name: "Radio Weather Receiving Stations") also consisted of a few poorly trained and often incompetent workers. A worthwhile organization for breaking new systems was developed only at the cryptographic bureau. The outstations were barely able to decode the encoded messages with the code in front of them.
At the outbreak of the war in 1939, the cryptanalytic groups both in the central office and in the outstations had grown to about 10 men each, and they were included in the newly established intercept companies. The training of the individual analyst was continuously improved through conferences, short training courses, and exchange groups of key men for instruction purposes
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