Talk:Radio Londres

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Did you know... that Radio Londres, a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied France, read Paul Verlaine's poem Chanson d'automne as a code to inform the resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place?

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V for Victory hotlink[edit]

I would question the hotlink "V for Victory campaign," appearing in the second paragraph of Origin and purpose. The hotlink leads to a page about a wargame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Victory#Winston_Churchill_and_the_victory_sign), rather than the World War II Victory Sign. Ballpark frank (talk) 00:17, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

zero-content signals[edit]

Broadcasts would begin with "Before we begin, please listen to some personal messages." It was clear to nearly everyone that they were coded messages, often amusing, and completely without context.

I have read (likely in Between Silk and Cyanide) that these messages were used not only to trigger (or report) an action but also to establish the bona fides of secret agents. A spy would say to a local, “Give me an arbitrary sentence – ‘the blue cow cannot sing,’ okay – now listen tomorrow at 18h, and if I am really in touch with London you'll hear that sentence.” —Tamfang (talk) 20:01, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]