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
When Emily Feeks, a Navy cryptologist based in San Diego, was transferred to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., in 2013, she viewed the move as a chance at a fresh start.
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
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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
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
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