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