cryptanalyst
Americannoun
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Other senior officials opted to leave, including the bureau’s top fraud expert, cryptanalyst and skyjacking expert, and the head of its Crime Information Center.
From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025
The cavalier approach enabled Crypto employees, and, later, journalists, to identify NSA employees including Nora Mackebee, a senior cryptanalyst, directly involved in meetings at Crypto.
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2020
In setting forth this model, Fodor married developments from the midcentury revolution in linguistics ushered in by Noam Chomsky to the computer science of the English mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2017
Friedman and his colleagues broke Japan’s code Purple during the Second World War, and Friedman became the chief cryptanalyst for the War Department and head of the Signals Intelligence Service in the forties and fifties.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2016
The FBI agent and the cryptanalyst knew they were on to something important.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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