cryptologist
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He said an Air Force pilot, Navy ship driver, cryptologist or cyber expert may be needed as battlefields become more challenging and high tech.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
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
In three tries, over three visits, I am repeatedly a cryptologist, passed over for ‘‘intelligence operative,’’ ‘‘spycatcher’’ and other action roles I coveted.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
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
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 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
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