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cryptologist

[krip-tah-luhj-ist] / krɪpˈtɑ lədʒ ɪst /


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Carol Sutton Lewis: But when the government first tapped her to help the war effort, Elizebeth wasn’t a trained cryptologist, not remotely.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

Army veteran, a cryptologist whose job was to crack enemy codes while stationed in Northern Africa and Europe during World War II.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

He also blames a bipartisan national security bureaucracy for the death of his wife, Shannon Kent, a Navy cryptologist killed in a suicide bombing in 2019 while fighting terrorists in Syria.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

Her final few years as a military cryptologist had been draining.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

Another was Oliver Strachey, a British cryptologist who ran a code-breaking unit in Canada that tracked spies, just as Elizebeth’s team did.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Carol Sutton Lewis: To crack these codes, the US government turned not to expert cryptologists, not to military intelligence, but to a team of rookie codebreakers living in the Illinois countryside—

From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023

Art director Antonio Alcalá, whose previous stamp projects featured skateboard art, women cryptologists of World War II and hip-hop, felt Meléndez’s style reflected a “spirit of Mexican culture” that suited the assignment.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

Now a spry 101 and living in Pittsburgh, Parsons described the vital mission she and other female cryptologists performed 80 years ago in deciphering enemy messages.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists and is credited with helping end the war.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

Since then, American spies, engineers, cryptologists and linguists have flocked to Alice Springs, the small town closest to the base, to work at the facility.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2017




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