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The American Black Chamber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yardley, Herbert O.
- Series:
- Bluejacket Bks.
- Bluejacket books The American black chamber
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division. Section No. 8--History.
- United States.
- Cryptography.
- World War, 1914-1918--Military intelligence.
- World War, 1914-1918--Secret service--United States.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Local Subjects:
- Cryptography.
- World War, 1914-1918--Military intelligence.
- World War, 1914-1918--Secret service--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Naval Institute Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During the 1920s Herbert O. Yardley was chief of the first peacetime cryptanalytic organization in the United States, the ancestor of today's National Security Agency. Funded by the U.S. Army and the Department of State and working out of New York, his small and highly secret unit succeeded in breaking the diplomatic codes of several nations, including Japan. The decrypts played a critical role in U.S. diplomacy. Despite its extraordinary successes, the Black Chamber, as it came to known, was disbanded in 1929. President Hoover's new Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson refused to continue
- Contents:
- Contents; I. The State Department Code Room; II. At the War College; III. Secret Inks; IV. Patricia; V. Madame Maria de Victorica; VI. Two German Wireless Intercepts; VII. Pablo Waberski; VIII. A Stolen Code; IX. Ordered Abroad; X. The British Cipher Bureau; XI. La Chambre Noire; XII. At the Peace Conference; XIII. Soviet Spies; XIV. Japanese Secret Codes; XV. A Missionary Cryptographer; XVI. The Washington Armament Conference; XVII. I Receive the Distinguished Service Medal; XVIII. The Secretary Sees the President; XIX. A Word with the State Department; XX. The Black Chamber Is Destroyed
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781612512822
- 1612512828
- OCLC:
- 841906714
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