TheCodeBreakers
At first there
was a tremendous rush to get organized, but then the pressure eased,
and Yardley and helpers Lieutenants J. Rives Childs of G.2 A.6 and
Frederick Livesey, who had been sent over from MI-8, enjoyed the life of
playboy cryptologists. A practical soul, Yardley saw no need for the three
officers assigned to the bureau to be present at once, and so a rotation of
duties was arranged that permitted them to spend most of their time at
the international cocktail parties and dancings that were then the rage of
Paris.
When it ended, as it had to, Yardley, viewing with distaste a return to
the State Department code room, and burning with evangelical fervor
over America's need for cryptanalysis, exercised his potent salesmanship
on the State and War departments. He won the concurrence of Frank L.
Polk, the acting Secretary of State; then, on May 16, 1919, he submitted
to the Chief of Staff a plan for a "permanent organization for code and
cipher investigation and attack
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