Codes, Ciphers and Spies Tales of Military Intelligence in World War
When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Whereas their European counterparts already had three years of experience in using code and cipher systems in the war, American cryptologists ha
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Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I
Codes, Ciphers and Spies
John F. Dooley
Codes, Ciphers and Spies Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I
John F. Dooley Department of Computer Science Knox College Galesburg, Illinois, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-29414-8 ISBN 978-3-319-29415-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29415-5
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Preface
This book is about two different things. First, it started with the rediscovery of a series of a dozen articles written in 1927 on contract for Collier’s Weekly Magazine about the cryptographic section of the Military Intelligence Division of the US Army during World War I by John Matthews Manly, a member of that division. These articles were never published, and they disappeared until recently, when copies were discovered in the William F. Friedman Collection at the George Marshall Foundation Research Library in Lexington, VA. The book describes how the articles were written, how they ended up in the Friedman Collection, and what they contain. The articles are presented; edited for grammatical, factual, and spelling mistakes (but spelling conventions from the 1920s are retained); and annotated to provide a context for their contents. The articles themselves contained no citations or bibliography, so these have been added where possible. The second thing this book attempts to do is to put cryptology, particularly American cryptology, in t
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