Jerry Roberts

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Jerry Roberts, he worked at Bletchley Park 1941 –1945, he was a Captain and Senior Cryptographer at Bletchley Park, working on the daily breaking of Fish (Tunny). He was one of the 3 original codebreaker members of the Testery. Fish was the top-level cipher system used between Army HQ in Berlin and the German High Command, including many messages signed by Hitler himself. Fish was very different from Enigma but in its own field just as important as it gave so much insight into top-level German thinking and planning. He remained there until VE Day in 1945.

After the War, 1945-47 continued to use his fluent German and French in the War Crimes Investigation Unit, and spent the next 2 years driving about the British Zone of Germany and France interviewing witnesses, victims and sometimes the accused in various war cases, taking legal statements from them (in German or French) for use in court.

Then he went on for next 50 years experience in Marketing and Research, including running his own two companies Roberts Research Ltd and Euroresearch Ltd for nearly 30 years. Market Research for a wide range of leading UK and international clients in the fields of product marketing, public opinion and media research. His clients included for instance; British Gas, Reebok trainers, DuPont (Teflon, Lycra etc), American Airlines, Chrysler cars, Holiday Inn hotels, and many others. In 1993, he sold both his companies to NOP Research Ltd (one of the top 2 research organisations in UK), and continued to handle as a consultant to NOP multi-country studies in Europe until 2000.