The Hut Six Story, Breaking the Enigma CodesIn the lead up to World War II, Gordon Welchman was one of the earliest recruits to Bletchley Park, a center known as Station X established by Britains Government Code and Cypher School to collect, decrypt and analyze encrypted messages. Welchman performed metadata analysis (that is, analysis of data that provides information about other data) of German communications to learn how German forces were organized, their location, movements and activities.