TheCodeBreakers
In her office—first in a building near the Bureau of Printing and
Engraving, then in a building on Pennsylvania Avenue opposite the
Willard Hotel—Mrs. Friedman solved 12,000 messages in just her first
three years for the Coast Guard, the Bureau of Customs, the Bureau of
Narcotics, the Bureau of Prohibition, the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
and the Department of Justice. Her testimony in court as to her solution
of various messages sent criminals to jail more than once. The
ringleaders of Consolidated Exporters were convicted and sentenced after
she testified to the secret meaning of its intercepted cryptograms.
"Without their translations," the prosecutor later wrote to Mrs.
Friedman's chief, "I do not believe that this very important case could
have been won."
Most businessmen, like most criminals, hardly ever use cryptography
for communications. An occasional price code is about as far as they go.
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