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1955, he started teaching mathematics at the University of Maryland.
His chief assistant was Wright, who handed out the work that Dyer
wanted done and then pitched in himself. In 1929, three years after he
graduated from Annapolis, he found himself with his crew on a rifle
range shared by Safford, a fellow officer in a destroyer division. Like
Dyer, he had solved the ciphers in the communications bulletins, and
Safford, in a sales campaign that began to the crack of musketry,
convinced him that he should specialize in cryptology. But it was not
until June of 1933 that Wright began his first tour in communications.
Sea duty alternated with cryptologic work until, in March of 1941, he
went to Pearl Harbor with Admiral Kimmel as the cryptanalyst in
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a. fleet security unit. He immediately began working with the Combat
Intelligence Unit and in February of 1942 was formally transferred to it.