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A Life in Code

Autor G. Stuart Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 2017
Protesters called it an act of war when the U.S. Coast Guard sank a Canadian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929. It took a cool-headed codebreaker solving a "trunk-full" of smugglers' encrypted messages to get Uncle Sam out of the mess: Elizebeth Smith Friedman's groundbreaking work helped prove the boat was owned by American gangsters. This book traces the career of a legendary U.S. law enforcement agent, from her work for the Allies during World War I through Prohibition, when she faced danger from mobsters while testifying in high profile trials. Friedman founded the cryptanalysis unit that provided evidence against American rum runners and Chinese drug smugglers. During World War II, her decryptions brought a Japanese spy to justice and her Coast Guard unit solved the Enigma ciphers of German spies. Friedman's "all source intelligence" model is still used by law enforcement and counterterrorism agencies against 21st century threats.
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ISBN-13: 9781476669182
ISBN-10: 147666918X
Pagini: 30
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: MCFARLAND & CO INC

Notă biografică

G. Stuart Smith is a journalism professor at Hofstra University. As a television reporter and videographer he won awards for investigative and feature reporting as well as videography. He lives in Stanfordville, New York.

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Traces the career of a legendary US law enforcement agent, from her work for the Allies during World War I through Prohibition, when she faced danger from mobsters while testifying in high profile trials. Elizebeth Smith Friedman's "all source intelligence" model is still used by law enforcement and counterterrorism agencies against 21st century threats.