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by _peeley 737 days ago
Pulling from this published source[0]:

> As I said, the problem is a classic one; it was formulated during the war, and efforts to solve it so sapped the energies and minds of Allied analysts that the suggestion was made that the problem be dropped over Germany, as the ultimate instrument of intellectual sabotage.

[0]: https://academic.oup.com/jrsssb/article-pdf/41/2/164/4909740...