Elizebeth Friedman: Hidden Heroine

A female American code breaker helped win both world wars but J. Edgar Hoover took the credit WITHOUT  technology or math training, Elizebeth Smith and William Friedman helped win both world wars by breaking enemy codes and laying the foundations of American cryptanalysis. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone recounts Elizebeth’s story, buried …

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