Peter Calvocoressi

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Peter Calvocoressi (born in 1912) is a British political author and a former cryptanalyst for the Royal Air Force during World War II.

1 Early years
2 Career
3 Bibliography
4 See also
5 References
6 Notes

[edit] Early years

Calvacoressi was born in Karachi, nowadays in Pakistan to a family of Greek origins from the island Chios related to the Rallis; a notable political family in Greece. At the age of three months old, the family moved to Liverpool, England.

At Eton College he translated the Abide with Me hymn into Latin. He spoke many European languages such as Greek, Latin, Italian, German and French.

Calvocoressi went to Balliol College, Oxford from 1931 to 1934. It was there where he became influenced by the teachings of Lewis Bernstein Namier.

[edit] Career

He is known for his writing on Ultra Intelligence at Bletchley Park and for his participation in collecting evidence for the trials of major war criminals in the Nuremberg trials. He later became the chairman of the London Library.^[1]

In 1940, Calvocoressi joined the British army as an officer in the RAF Intelligence. at Bletchley Park Nazi secret code. the machines were called Enigma and the intelligence we got from reading Enigma was put in a class of its own called Ultra. He was hired by the Pentagon to assist in the Nuremberg trials.

|Liberal candidate for Parliament in 1945. From 1949 to 1954 he wrote annual survey for Royal Institute of International Affairs

FRom 1962 to 1971, Calvocoressi became a member of the Working Group on Minorities, a sub-commission of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. In the same period he hold a position of the chairman of the Africa Bureau of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

In 1990, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Open University.