TheCodeBreakers
The
State Department's contribution of $40,000, which began on July 15,
1919, could not be legally expended within the District of Columbia, and
so Yardley soon found himself
moving the nucleus of a staff (largely recruited from MI-8) and the
necessary paraphernalia—language statistics, maps, newspaper clipping,
dictionaries—to New York City.
By October 1 the organization that was to become known as the
American Black Chamber was ensconced in the former town house of T.
Suffern Tailer, a New York society man and political leader, at 3 East
38th Street. It stayed there little more than a year, however, before
moving to new quarters in a four-story brownstone at 141 East 37th
Street, just east of Lexington Avenue. It occupied half of the ornate,
divided structure, whose high ceilings did little to relieve the
claustrophobic construction of its twelve-foot-wide rooms. Yardley's
apartment was on the top floor. All external connection with the
government was cut
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