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...earned a degree in geography and learned how to interpret satellite reconnaissance data. At graduation, he married and went straight into the army. With his wife Laura, he resumed the life of perpetual motion he had always known, moving frequently among military bases while he served as a cryptologist and rose to the rank of captain...
...solution of the Purple Code fell to the U.S. Army Signal Corps' chief cryptologist, William Friedman, whom Kahn calls the world's greatest code expert. Friedman and his superb team had a head start. For example, they had already solved lower-level codes, and were familiar with common Japanese forms, such as "I have the honor to inform Your Excellency." As Kahn says, "these constituted virtual cribs...
...notion that the plays had been written by a group of Rosicrucians and Freemasons, including Bacon, sent a book to Doubleday, Doran purporting to prove that the plays contained hidden stories (e.g., "The Asse Will Shakespeare . . . beares sland'rous tales to Hatton"). Doubleday sent the book to Cryptologist Friedman, who used Cunningham's own "Masonic Code" to get the message: "Dear Reader, Theodore Roosevelt is the true author of this play, but I, Bacon, stole it from...
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