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
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
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
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
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
The document contains the names of dozens of CIA operatives and NSA cryptologists, but the agencies emerge as characters themselves, with distinct institutional personalities.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020
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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