Britain's spy agency honours codebreaker Turing in giant artwork

A close-up view shows part of an artwork of Alan Turing installed by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) inside the Doughnut building as a ?50 note featuring him goes into circulation on his birthday, in Cheltenham, Britain, in this still image from a video obtained by Reuters on June 21, 2021. Video recorded with a drone. CROWN COPYRIGHT 2021/Handout via REUTERS

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's GCHQ spy agency has installed a giant multicoloured artwork to celebrate codebreaker and mathemetician Alan Turing, who helped turn the tide of World War Two against Nazi Germany but was persecuted for being gay.

The 10-metre (33-ft) by 10-metre artwork in the centre of the agency's doughnut-shaped headquarters depicts Turing inside the wheels of the "bombe" codebreaker machine that he designed.