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Rockex: Front and end views. This example is on display at the Communications and Electronics Museum, Kingston (Photos by Jerry Proc)
DEVELOPMENT

Benjamin deForest Bayly, a Canadian wartime communications genius , was the developer of the Rockex. Originally from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, he became a professor at the University of Toronto. At the height of WWII, he was hired by William Samuel Stephenson, the senior representative of British intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II.
Stephenson was sent to the United States on June 21, 1940 to covertly open and run British Security Coordination (BSC) in New York City, over a year prior to the US entering the war. The BSC office, headquartered in room 3603 in Rockefeller Center, became an umbrella organization that by the end of the war, represented the British intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 (SIS or Secret Intelligence Service), SOE (Special Operations Executive) and PWE (Political Warfare Executive) throughout North America, South America and the Caribbean.