Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union

Secrets! It is a curse that nations need secrets to achieve their national goals. Walter W. Olson, Ph.D, P.E. Secrets! It is a curse that nations need secrets to achieve their national goals.This book explores SIGINT (signal intelligence) in the United States from World War II to the NSA in the Vietnam War it is limited to what is current state because that information has not been declassified yet.My mother was a Code Breaker at Arlington Hall during World War II largely because she spoke Slavic languages fluently. It became an obsession with h. Well worth reading for those interested in the details of decryption and comm traffic analysis. Amazon Customer Excellent coverage of analytic techniques in 20th century through the 1950's. Due to security restrictions increasingly sparse afterwards. The book is one of the few that acknowledges the contributions of the tens of thousands of enlisted military linguists and analysts that kept close track of Warsaw pact and asian orders of battle during the cold war. Mostly missing of course is western history on encryption methods of the US and it's . Spy Listener This is an excellent and detailed chronology of communications intelligence gathering from ww2 to current times. However, like many subject focused books it helps if you have a keen interest in the subject. I worked in this area from late 50s to early 60s, so from my perspective it was fascinating and filled a lot of voids.

In Code Warriors, Stephen Budiansky - a longtime expert in cryptology - tells the fascinating story of how NSA came to be, from its roots in World War II through the fall of the Berlin Wall. Featuring a series of appendixes that explain the technical details of Soviet codes and how they were broken, this is a rich and riveting history of the underbelly of the Cold War, and an essential and timely read for all who seek to understand the origins of the modern NSA.. Along the way, he guides us through the fascinating challenges faced by cryptanalysts, and how they broke some of the most complicated codes of the 20th century. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community found itself targeting not soldiers on the battlefield, but suspected spies, foreign leaders, and even American citizens. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, NSA played a vital, often fraught and controversial role in the major events of the Cold War, from the Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis to Vietnam and beyond. A sweeping, in-depth history of NS