Abstract

This paper draws on a major study of the organization of Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking centre in the Second World War, to analyse the particular issue of organizational secrecy. Through detailed empirical examples, the key processes of organizational secrecy are identified as being ignorance, silence and surveillance. Organizational consequences, both positive and negative, are also identified.

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