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censorship field stations in laboratory operation, and handled some of
the more active and difficult cases themselves. From Hawaii Shaw
imported his trusted cryptanalytic expert to form a unit "capable," he
said, "not only of cracking codes and ciphers but also of building the
intricate dossiers of personal history, contacts, handwriting peculiarities,
and correspondence habits of each actual and suspected espionage
agent." The man who could do it was Armen Abdian, a former New
Englander who had come to Hawaii in the prewar Army, had taught a
cram course for prospective West Pointers, and had gone into business in
Honolulu.
The primary detection of clandestine communications took place in
the censorship field stations. Largest of all was New York's, filling a huge
building on Lower Eighth Avenue. About 4,500 postal examiners scanned
the snowdrifts of mail that piled onto their desks each day. They excised
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