TheCodeBreakers
Letters in
uncommon languages went to a language identification section, which
obtained translators for such esoteric tongues as Ladino, a mixture of
Hebrew and 15th-century Spanish spoken only by the 30,000 Sephardic
Jews in colonies in Spain, the Balkans, and Latin America.
Floor examiners passed all messages with peculiar wording, odd-
looking marks, or other suspected indications to the security division,
which had two sections to examine steganograms concealed in the two
basic ways—linguistically and technologically. These were the code and
cipher section for the linguistic steganograms and the laboratory section
for the technological. Both were linked to T.O.D. by a security assistant
who implemented T.O.D.'s instructions and passed the more recalcitrant
problems back to Washington. The 70 examiners in the New York code
and cipher section occupied about half the 14th floor, with some of the
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