cryptologist
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cryptologists
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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
Gonzales, a former Navy cryptologist who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, won a close race in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 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
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
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
The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists and is credited with helping end the war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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
Since then, American spies, engineers, cryptologists and linguists have flocked to Alice Springs, the small town closest to the base, to work at the facility.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2017
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