Word: cipher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government first heard about the Russian espionage last autumn from Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in the Soviet Embassy at Ottawa. Why he tattled, the Government did not say. But he named names, produced documents, and pointed to Nicolai Zabotin, the Embassy's military attaché, as the spy ring's head. He said that Zabotin, in the best spy manner, used a bogus name: "Grant...
Gravely aware that such small things as an "ex" omitted or a cipher added can misinform millions, TIME researchers will continue putting black marks against themselves in "The Black Book"-TIME will keep on printing your corrections in Letters-and TIME editors, writers, management will do all they can to make the filter ever finer. With your help and with constant vigilance here, someday we may be able to whittle TIME'S boners down to near zero...
Anthony Brooke was Raja Muda once before. But when he married a social cipher, Sir Charles questioned his fitness for administrative work. So Anthony's father, Captain Bertram Brooke, became the presumptive Raja. Since then Anthony has been restored to favor. Now, with the Japs on the run and the old Raja engrossed in gardening, it looks as if Anthony will become Sarawak's next White Raja after...
...other than regard him as persona non grata, and we could not again receive him. His views are not what we are entitled to expect from a professedly friendly telegram." envoy. The Viceroy has seen this The telegram was undated ; it had obviously been sent originally in cipher code...
...should] insist on less secrecy in public affairs. . . . The world today has become a darkened room with more & more proceedings in camera, secret committees . . . banned books and withheld lists of banned books, censorships, prohibited areas and private understandings so esoteric that they could scarcely be mentioned even in cipher...