Camp X

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Camp X was near the Canadian-American border on the north shore of Lake Ontario (1943)
Memorial at the site of the former Camp X (2011)
Plaque on the memorial commemorating the STS 103 and Hydra (2011)

Camp X (also: Camp-X ) was the code name of a secret military facility in Canada during World War II .

history

Camp X opened on December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , in the Canadian city of Whitby near Oshawa on the north shore of Lake Ontario not far from the border with the United States . Its official name was Special Training School No. 103 (STS 103) . Allied agents were trained here by the British Security Coordination (BSC) , who were then used by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the war against the Axis powers .

In addition, from 1943 a terminal was set up here for the war- essential transatlantic communications , with which the war-allied USA and Canada on the one hand and the United Kingdom on the other hand handled top-secret communications (code name: "Hydra"). A terminal on the other side of the Atlantic was Station X in Bletchley, England, about 70 km northwest of London.

For cryptographically secure encryption of the telex was Rockex - key machine used that the unbreakable one-time key method ( English one-time pad , short OTP ) used.

The facility was taken over by the Canadian government in 1947 and continued to operate as a telecommunications station. In 1969 it was closed and the buildings demolished. A memorial was erected in its place. The site is now called Intrepid Park after the former cover name of Sir William Stephenson (1897–1989), the former head of the BSC .

literature

Web links

Commons : Camp X  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The History of Camp-X , accessed July 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ Camp-X 'Hydra' , accessed on July 10, 2017.
  3. ^ Camp X in the Canadian Encyclopedia , accessed July 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ The History of Camp-X , accessed July 10, 2017.

Coordinates: 43 ° 51 ′ 15 ″  N , 78 ° 53 ′ 6 ″  W.