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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Alan Turing and his computable numbers
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 18:13:52 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1805281752021.813@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180527235457.GE96747@server.rulingia.com>

On Mon, 28 May 2018, Peter Jeremy wrote:

>> What's the "murder" theory?
>
> I hadn't heard the "murder" theory but a quick search turned up: 
> https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/was-alan-turing-murdered-author-roger-bristow-says-yes.html

Fascinating article; one thing's for sure though: if the FBI was involved 
then we'll never know for sure.

> I guess that's possible but I thought he'd lost all his clearances.

Yeah, but my conspiracist side says that because he knew about Verona and 
could possibly be compromised, someone wanted him very dead...

-- Dave


      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-28  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-27 22:34 Dave Horsfall
2018-05-27 22:38 ` Toby Thain
2018-05-27 23:14   ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-27 23:54   ` Peter Jeremy
2018-05-28  8:13     ` Dave Horsfall [this message]

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