P-37 giving it. In some cases I found that the man I was interviewing had his own documentary record and was consulting it, and that what he said was confirmed later. He should have been, but he just was not that day, and he must have heard the story from one of the people there and then repeated it. If a gentleman who holds the rank of Admiral of the Fleet and is a junior Minister in the Cabinet tells you that he is there, one's reaction is not to question him and, indeed, it was one of these confirmatory details. He may have come to believe it.
Memory is a very tricky .
The Bletchley Park intercepts, in so far as they are complete, are always regarded as the most reliable because there is no evidence that the dispatcher was aware that his messages could be decoded and, therefore, he would put truth in them. There are cases, of course, in which messages were sent in a code that was expected to broken in order to mislead. That is not my information. That is not my information, no. We were reading at different times a very large proportion of the Naval codes.