The Woman Who Smashed Codes

by Jason Fagone

Think of Paul Revere hanging lamps in the Boston steeple to signal the route of the British

Didn't someone else hang the lamps and Paul Revere was waiting for the signal? Quick google search says it was not PR who hung the lamps but Robert Newman and John Pulling.

In other words, when the FBI was able to solve its own messages, this was only because Elizebeth had given the Technical Laboratory the means of solution—the laboratory run by the G-man she herself had trained in 1940.

During the Second World War, an American woman figured out how to sweep the globe of undercover Nazis. The proof was on paper: four thousand typed decryptions of clandestine Nazi messages that her team shared with the global intelligence community. She had conquered at least forty-eight different clandestine radio circuits and three Enigma machines to get these plaintexts.

So interesting.