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I've heard a "theory" that the discrepancy between the policies of candidates before and after being elected POTUS could be due to their access to top secret information after their election. Is there some historical data to support this based on since-then declassified info?

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The movie "The Imitation Game" makes the claim that the Bletchley Park cryptologists shortened the war by two years and saved 14 million lives. How accepted are those numbers, and how were they calculated?

1872 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Were citizens of Rome in the final days of the Empire aware that their civilization was ending?

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I've heard a "theory" that the discrepancy between the policies of candidates before and after being elected POTUS could be due to their access to top secret information after their election. Is there some historical data to support this based on since-then declassified info?	1986	AskHistorians
The movie "The Imitation Game" makes the claim that the Bletchley Park cryptologists shortened the war by two years and saved 14 million lives. How accepted are those numbers, and how were they calculated?	1872	AskHistorians
Were citizens of Rome in the final days of the Empire aware that their civilization was ending?	954	AskHistorians