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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

Some 350,000 women served as cryptologists, nurses, pilots, mechanics, office workers, drivers, telephone operators and in other roles to help with the war effort.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

It acknowledges some losses: There is a memorial wall and displays that tell the stories of cryptologists killed in combat.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2022

The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2022

The scenario: British mathematician Alan Turing and a team of cryptologists race to break the Nazi Enigma code during World War II.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2015




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