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enciphering or deciphering, but read the telegrams, corrected them, and
signed them.
The cryptanalysts were divided into geographical and linguistic
subsections—Chinese, Anglo-American, and so on.* The future Mrs.
Ekdovia Petrov, who had studied Japanese for two years at a language
school in Moscow, was assigned to the Japanese section. Among her co-
workers were Vera Plotnikova, daughter of a professor of Japanese and a
long-time resident of Japan; Galina Pod-palova, who liked things
Japanese so much that she wore kimonos at home; Ivan Kalinin, who
came in occasionally as a consultant; and Professor Shungsky, old,
distinguished, vigorous, the section's supreme authority on Japanese. He
gave Doosia (the future Mrs. Petrov's nickname) an affectionate kiss on
the cheek when, after four years of his tutoring, she translated a difficult
sentence to his liking at her final examination.
Shungsky had served in the czarist Army, and many others in the
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