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Subject: Rumrunners
Date: 2001
Format: Brochure

Subject: Cryptology
Date: 1978
Format: Monograph

Subject: Cryptology
Date: 2019
Format: Monograph

Subject: Revolutionary War
Date: 2012
Format: Brochure

Subject: Revolutionary War
Format: Monograph

Subject: Cipher Disk
Format: Brochure

Subject: Cipher Disk
Date: 1993
Format: Monograph

From the Ground Up: American Cryptology during World War I APPENDIX A: Cryptologists of World War I

By Betsy Rohaly Smoot

Center for Cryptologic History
First edition published 2023

From the Ground Up: American Cryptology during World War I

By Betsy Rohaly Smoot

Center for Cryptologic History
First edition published 2023

Issues in British and American Signals Intelligence 1919-1932

Subject: World War 1
Date: 2016
Format: Article

Enigma Patent

Solving the ENIGMA: History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe by Jennifer Wilcox

Center for Cryptologic History National Security Agency
Revised Edition 2024

Subject: COMINT
Date: 1997
Format: Monograph

Subject: SIGSALY
Date: 2000
Format: Brochure

Subject: Mathematics
Date: 2005
Format: Brochure

Subject: Women
Date: 2013
Format: Brochure

Subject: SIGSALY
Date: 2001
Format: Brochure

Subject: War in the Pacific
Date: 2017
Format: Monograph

Subject: Signals Intelligence
Date: 2010
Format: Monograph

Subject: SIGSALY
Date: 2000
Format: Brochure

Subject: Midway
Date: 2000
Format: Brochure

Subject: Pearl Harbor
Date: 2008
Format: Monograph

Subject: Holocaust
Date: 2004
Format: Monograph

Subject: German Intelligence
Date: 2011
Format: Monograph

Subject: Enigma
Date: 2019
Format: Monograph

Subject: Enigma
Date: 2016
Format: Monograph

Subject: Pearl Harbor
Date: 2013
Format: Monograph

Subject: Code Talkers
Date: 2002
Format: Brochure

Subject: Bombes
Date: 2002
Format: Brochure

Subject: Cipher Machines
Date: 2014
Format: Brochure

The Cold war gets Hot...

This paper has been cobbled together from summaries prepared during or immediately after the period of hostilities, some original documents, and the memories of some of the participants. Some of the materials on which this history is based may not be declassified by its publication date (June 2000). I have prepared the booklet in this unusual manner in order to have a general history in time for the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the war.

This booklet is therefore intended only as an introduction to the subject, an interim history until further declassification allows the fuller history of cryptologic support during the Korean War to be written. I would like to emphasize that much remains to be researched and studied about cryptology in Korea and, in fact, I look forward to more detailed studies of cryptology in the Korean War in the near future.

Subject: Korean War
Date: 2001
Format: Brochure

Subject: Pusan Perimeter
Date: 2000
Format: Brochure

Subject: Korean War
Date: 2000
Format: Monograph

Subject: Korean War
Date: 2001
Format: Brochure

Subject: Vietnam
Date: 2017
Format: Monograph

NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis by Thomas R. Johnson and David A. Hatch

Center for Cryptologic History National Security Agency
Reprinted 2014

Subject: VENONA
Date:
Format: Brochure
Reprinted 2012, 2019

Subject: Cold War
Date:
Format: Brochure

Subject: Cold War
Date: 2010
Format: Brochure

Subject: Cold War
Date: 2004
Format: Brochure

Subject: Cold War
Date: 2017
Format: Monograph

Subject: Cold War
Date: 2018
Format: Monograph

Subject: VENONA
Date: 1996
Format: Booklet

CryptoComics #017: The Gold Bug

CryptoComics 016 – Solving Purple

CryptoComics 015 – Red Carnation

CryptoComics 015 – “Louie”

CryptoComics 014 – America’s First Spy Story

CryptoComics 012 – From the Ambassador

CryptoComics 011 – A Noble Life

CryptoComics 010 – First African American Cryptologists

CryptoComics 009 – Civil War Signal Security

CryptoComics 008 – A Revolution in Communications

CryptoComics 007 – Beneath the Surface

CryptoComics 006 – Critical Communications

CryptoComics 005 – GuadalCanal

CryptoComics 004 – Teaching an Old General New Tricks

CryptoComics 003 – The Juanita Moody Story

CryptoComics 002 – The Unbreakable Kryha Machine

CryptoComics 001 – NSOC

Cryptologic Quarterly, 2023-01 Article "National Computer Security Center and the Origins of NSA's Information Assurance Mission."

Settings, Keys, Hats, and Head Scratching: The Headline Puzzle

Center for Cryptologic History

Ninety Years of Assessing Civilian Cryptologic Performance at the National Security Agency

By Betsy Rohaly Smoot

Series VI | Volume 16

Center for Cryptologic History
Revised edition 2024
(original title: “Efficiency Rating” to “Contribution Evaluations”: 90 Years of Assessing Civilian Cryptologic Performance)

NSA Directors: The Selection and Confirmation Process
A History and Lessons Learned Study

By Trumbull D. Soule

Center for Cryptologic History
First edition published 2022

Subject: Museum
Date: 2003
Format: Article

Subject: Mathematics
Date: 2003
Format: Article

Subject: Key Tape Production
Date: 2016
Format: Article

Subject: Books
Date:
Format: Article

Subject: NSA
Date:
Format: Brochure

Subject: Cryptology
Date: 2017
Format: Brochure

Subject: Traffic Analysis
Date: 2017
Format: Brochure

Subject: Anniversary
Date: 2002
Format: Brochure

“Give to Ferner” The Untold Story of an American Master Cryptanalyst

By Brenda J. McIntire

Center for Cryptologic History
First edition published 2023

Subject:Driscoll
Date:2015
Format:Monograph

Subject: Tordella
Date:
Format: Brochure

Subject: Tltman
Date: 2007
Format: Brochure

Subject: Rumrunners
Date: 2014
Format: Brochure

Subject: Caracristi
Date: 2019
Format: Monograph

Subject: Caracristi
Date: 1992
Format: Monograph

Subject: Information Security
Date: 2003
Format:Brouchure

Subject: TELINT
Date: 2003
Format:Brouchure

Subject: ELINT
Date: 2003
Format: Monograph

Subject: SIGABA/ECM II
Date: 2015
Format: Monograph

Subject: DEFSMAC
Date: 2012
Format: Monograph

Subject: Cryptology
Date: 2015
Format: Monograph

Cryptologic Quarterly 2023-02 Volume 41

Cryptologic Quarterly 2021-01 Volume 40

Renaissance Cryptography Occultism and the Jewish Cabala
The Dawn of American Communications Intelligence: The Spanish-American War and After
NSA's Senior Technical Development Program Turns Twenty
Farmhouse Field Station Houlton Maine: The U.S. Army's First Fixed Field Site
The Thought behind High-Level Cryptological Discovery 1930-1945

Release of the William and Elizebeth Friedman Collection
William Bundy at Bletchley Park
How Modular Arithmetic Helped Win World War II
Two Cryptologic Nights at the Cinema

History and Transparency: Two Years at a Glance!
Family Album—Vint Hill Farms Station
The Evolution of Signals Security as a Counterintelligence Discipline
The STONEHOUSE of East Africa
A Layman's Guide to the Mysteries of Linguistics
A Space Worthy of its Namesakes: The Friedman Conference Center

What CCH Can Do for You: Make History Relevant!
Decryption in Progress: The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895
A Nineteenth-Century SIGINT Success
The Cryptologist's War: How World War I Helped Weave the "Cloak" of Cryptologic Secrecy
Ann's War: One Woman's Journey to the Codebreaking Victory over Japan
Best-Laid Plans: Establishing the Armed Forces Security Agency Legal Counsel
Before the Dawn: Life at a Remote SIGINT Site during the Cold War

The Center for Cryptologic History 2021 Digital Calendar

2024 Center for Cryptologic History Calendar

2023 Center for Cryptologic History Calendar

The Center for Cryptologic History 2022 Digital Calendar

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