[varmint]

95-96 I was at gun show in kern county. Looking through a pile of crap for Mauser parts I uncovered a strange typewriter. stared at it for a minute before Realizing what it was. He wanted $9000. I thought about offering him my car. Couldn’t come to a deal.

He said it came from India. Did some research after the fact. The British captured thousands of enigma machines after the war. At the same time colonies were breaking away all over the empire. British intel gave Kenya, India, South Africa, etc a gift of “uncrackable” code machines.