A Life in Code
Pioneer Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman
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2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6918-2 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6918-2 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue
1. The Imperious Patron
2. The World War I Transformation
3. The Prohibition Years
4. Saving Face for Uncle Sam
5. A High Profile
6. Living with Flair and Cheating Death
7. A Rocky Start to the War
8. “The spy stuff!”
9. The Doll Woman
10. Postwar Career and Elizebeth Friedman’s Legacy
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.04.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 31 photos, notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 313 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-6918-X / 147666918X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-6918-2 / 9781476669182 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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