Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union [First edition] 9780385352666, 9780385352673, 0000119733, 0385352662

Table of contents :
Prologue : "A catalogue of disasters" --
The Russian problem : Arlington Hall, 1943
Assembly-line cryptology
"Getting everything"
The Soviet one-time-pad systems
Future of the special relationship
Spying in peacetime

"Like a deserted barn" --
Unbreakable codes : A defector in Ottawa
Reading depths
Russian teleprinters
TICOM and the Karrenberg Party
Caviar and Longfellow
"Low pay and too many military bosses"
Cable intercept and moral murkiness --
Learning to lie : NKGB messages and Soviet spycraft
A Russian genius for conspiracy
"Plausible deniability"
The perils of prosecution
Soviet rotor machines
Who interprets signals intelligence? --
Digital dawn : Computers for cryptanalysis
ERA's Task 13
Special-purpose comparators
Abner, Goldberg, Demon, and Swish
"Black Friday," October 1948
Russian plaintext on "the plantation." Shooting wars : Ferret flights
Shootdown in the Baltic
Traffic analysis and ELINT
Looking the other way in Korea
MacArthur's SIGINT blindness
Low-level intercept and the air war
The birth of NSA
Philby, Maclean, and Weisband --
"An old mule skinner" : "Reasonable dictator" Ralph H. Canine
Square spies, obtuse security
Inquisition by polygraph
A Dutch mole
Intercept overload
The move to Fort Meade --
Brains versus bugs : Improving on enigma
Theremin's "thing"
The Berlin tunnel
TEMPEST
Hungary, Suez, and the chaos of 1956
Harvest, lightning, and IBM hegemony
Information theory, and the changing of the cryptanalytic old guard --
Days of crisis : Martin and Mitchell
Glimmers of accountability
The "Boris deal" and cryptographic innocents abroad
SIGINT in space
Cuban Missile Crisis
Critics and Bullmeese. Reinventing the wheel : Lyndon Johnson's SIGINT fascination
Gulf of Tonkin, 1964
Learning to fight, again
Tet and the "ultra syndrome"
USS Pueblo
Growing spectrum, shrinking resources --
Brute force and legerdemain : SIGINT sclerosis
"Disreputable if not outright illegal"
Battle of the bugs, continued
The Inman era and the last hurrah of the codebreakers, 1979
Pelton, Walker, and the "year of the spy," 1985 --
Epilogue : The collapse of the wall, and a verdict --
Appendixes : Enciphered codes, depths, and book breaking --
Russian teleprinter ciphers --
Cryptanalysis of the Hagelin Machine
Bayesian probability, Turing, and the Deciban --
The index of coincidence.

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