Astro-illogical

While Werner Von Braun and his oompah band calculated payloads and trajectories...

While Alan Turing and his merry enigmatic men were playing with bombes at Bletchley Park...

While Robert Oppenheimer herded cats at Los Alamos (and Feynman taught his computer to play tricks)...

MI5 chased stardust.

The government rented an apartment for de Wohl in a hotel in London's exclusive Park Lane. On paper headed Psychological Research Bureau, he reported on clients and wrote horoscopes for Allied and Nazi leaders.

But de Wohl's predictions were often so vague it is impossible to see any military use. Take his December 1942 prediction for seven months later: "The German astrologers must pray that enemy action does not force the Fuehrer into making important decisions within the first eight days of the month (of July), as this would lead to great disaster."