cryptanalyst
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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
He became the chief cryptanalyst of the Army Signal Corps.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Gralley said he believes both letters are encrypted to varying degrees. To help with the decoding, he’s emailed them to friends, retired cryptanalysts from the CIA and National Security Agency.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2017
The subject’s mystique has drawn unusual visitors to “Decoding the Renaissance,” like the F.B.I.’s cryptanalysts, not the typical audience for a library devoted to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2015
In 1995 a small group of cryptanalysts inside the NSA quietly deciphered the first three sections of the sculpture, though no one outside the agency and the CIA’s top brass knew about it.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2014
He is now the last survivor of the nine cryptanalysts who worked on Tunny, and has spent the past four years campaigning for acknowledgement of his colleagues.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2012
The problem was not so much what they did as who they were—a married pair of cryptanalysts, one of whom was getting coast-to-coast press coverage.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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