cryptologist
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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
Gonzales, a former Navy cryptologist who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, won a close race in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 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
The CIA history devotes substantial praise, for example, to an NSA cryptologist, Peter Jenks, who conceived of increasingly sophisticated ways to rig Crypto machines and dupe foreign governments.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020
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
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At the Pyry Conference near Warsaw in 1939, Polish cryptologists invited French and British counterparts, including Alastair Denniston and Dilly Knox, to share their pioneering success in breaking the German Enigma machine cipher.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
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
The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2022
U.S. officials had toyed since the outset with the idea of asking Hagelin whether he would be willing to let U.S. cryptologists doctor his machines.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2020
Where is the argument that the Executive use its resources to recruit cryptologists to write the code that it currently seeks and codes it will certainly need for future technology.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2016