Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

by Liza Mundy

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It was women who helped found the field of clandestine eavesdropping—much bigger and more controversial now than it was then—and it was women in many cases who shaped the early culture of the NSA.

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One of the best code-breaking assets is a good memory, and the only thing better than one person with a good memory is a lot of people with good memories.

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