{"id":9369,"date":"2018-02-05T09:15:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2018-02-05T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:15:31","slug":"the-woman-who-smashed-codes-the-true-story-of-love-spies-and-the-unlikely-heroine-who-outwitted-americas-enemies-jason-fagone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2018\/02\/05\/the-woman-who-smashed-codes-the-true-story-of-love-spies-and-the-unlikely-heroine-who-outwitted-americas-enemies-jason-fagone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman Who Smashed Codes. The true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted america’s enemies. Jason Fagone."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes. The true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted america’s enemies. Jason Fagone<\/a>. 2017. ISBN 9780062430489. This is the story of Elizebeth Smith and William Friedman who married and together built the American tools and teams for\u00a0 cryptography (code breaking)\u00a0 prior to WW2 , which eventually became the NSA<\/a>. There are many smaller stories\u00a0 in the larger one. A wife who always let her husband shine ( yet history shows that she was the absolutely brilliant one) . How society (and the military)\u00a0 ruthlessly and cavalierly ignored her true value in position and salary.\u00a0 They worked on unscrambling puzzles from crooks, spies,\u00a0 informants, and the enemy military.\u00a0 They wrote the definitive earliest books on code breaking.\u00a0 Their work was routinely used and seized by the always publicity seeking Hoover who always ignored their contributions. Toward the end, the US governments paranoia about secrecy ended up in the seizure of much of the Friedman’s personal papers and rare books collection.\u00a0 \u00a0They got their start through an eccentric millionaire,\u00a0 George Fabyan<\/a> ( who wanted to prove that Francis Bacon wrote all of Shakespeare’s work) on his estate called Riverbank.\u00a0 It is highly readable, almost improbable (until you remember the context), and the authors text flows well along.\u00a0 This would make an exceptional movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the story of Elizebeth Smith and William Friedman who married and together built the American tools and teams for\u00a0 cryptography (code breaking)\u00a0 prior to WW2 , which eventually became the NSA. There are many smaller stories\u00a0 in the larger one. A wife who always let her husband shine ( yet history shows that she was the absolutely brilliant one) . How society (and the military)\u00a0 ruthlessly and cavalierly ignored her true value in position and salary.\u00a0 They worked on unscrambling puzzles from crooks, spies,\u00a0 informants, and the enemy military.\u00a0 They wrote the definitive earliest books on code breaking.\u00a0 Their work was routinely used and seized by the always publicity seeking Hoover who always ignored their contributions. Toward the end, the US governments paranoia about secrecy ended up in the seizure of much of the Friedman’s personal papers and rare books collection.\u00a0 \u00a0They got their start through an eccentric millionaire,\u00a0 George Fabyan ( who wanted to prove that Francis Bacon wrote all of Shakespeare’s work) on his estate called Riverbank.\u00a0 It is highly readable, almost improbable (until you remember the context), and the authors text flows well along.\u00a0 This would make an exceptional movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,1],"tags":[2875,2874,2878,2881,2879,1726,2877,2880,2876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9451,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions\/9451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}