How I discovered World War II's greatest spy : and other stories of intelligence and code /: and other stories of intelligence and code. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: How I discovered World War two's greatest spy
• Further Information: Note: David Kahn ; foreword by Bruce Schneier.
• Other Names: Kahn, David, 1930-
• Contents: INTRODUCTION; ; How I Discovered World War II’s Greatest Spy; Who Was the Greatest Spy of World War II?; ; AMERICAN STORIES; ; Did Roosevelt Know?; ; Pearl Harbor and the Inadequacy of Cryptanalysis; Appendix: A Japanese Cryptosystem; The Woman Who Made the Key Discovery; ; How the United States Viewed Germany and Japan in 1941; ; Roosevelt, Magic, and Ultra; ; Edward Bell and His Zimmermann Telegram Memoranda; ; Cryptology and the Origins of Spread Spectrum; Secret Telephone in the Cabinet War Rooms; Defining Terms; The First Unbreakable Scrambler; Vocoder Speech Synthesizer Studied; Enter the X-System; Telephones Protected against Tapping; Training Conducted in Secret; For Churchill, a Cigar and Informality; General Strategy by Telephone; Summit Conferences Amid Informality; To Probe Further; ; CASES; ; Rise of Intelligence ; ; Intelligence in World War II: A Survey; ; Germany’s Intelligence Failure in World War II; ; An Enigma Chronology; ; The Black Code; ; Nothing Sacred: The Allied Solution of Vatican Codes in World War II; ; Finland’s Codebreaking in World War II; ; Soviet Comint in the Cold War; ; How the Allies Suppressed the Second Greatest Secret of World War II; Acknowledgments; ; Part IV A Theory, Clausewitz, and More; ; An Historical Theory of Intelligence; The Past; The Present; The Future; ; Clausewitz on Intelligence; ; Surprise and Secrecy: Two Thoughts; ; Intelligence Lessons in Macbeth; ; How Garbles Tricked History; ; The Cryptologic Origin of Braille; ; The Only False Message I Know; The Prehistory of the General Staff; ; PERSONALITIES; ; Charles J. Mendelsohn and why I Envy Him; Acknowledgment; ; The Man in the Iron Mask: Encore ET Enfin, Cryptologically; Chiffres Diplomatiques; ; Students Better than a Pro (Bazeries) and an Author (Candela); ; The Old Master of Austrian Cryptology; Book Review A COUNTERFACTUAL AND THE FUTURE; ; Enigma Uncracked: The Allies Fail to Break the German Cipher Machine; ; The Future of the Past: Questions in Cryptologic History; Acknowledgments
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Auerbach Publications
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 940.54/85; World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence; World War, 1939-1945 -- Electronic intelligence; World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography; COMPUTERS / Security / General; COMPUTERS / Security / Cryptography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466562042; 1466562048
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