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By December 1942, Friedman’s Coast Guard team cracked every single one of the Nazi’s new codes. They were back to eavesdropping on German spies who were none the wiser they were being listened to.
- Friedman Begins Career Hunting For Codes in Shakespeare
- Friedman Identifies A Nazi Spy Ringleader
- Friedman Ids Spy Fronting as Doll Shop Owner
Elizebeth Smith was born in Huntington, Indiana in 1892. She began her career in cryptanalysis in 1916, when a wealthy man named Colonel George Fabyan hired her to work at Riverbank Laboratories, which he’d founded a few years before in Illinois. Fabyan was a conspiracy theorist who believed Sir Francis Bacon was the true author of William Shakespe...
Friedman didn’t choose to work on Nazi spy rings in Latin American, says Amy Butler Greenfield, a historian and author of the forthcoming book The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life. “She isn’t actually thrilled with that mission,” Greenfield says. “She goes on record later on saying that she doesn’t fee...
Another World War II spy whose codes Friedman examined was Velvalee Dickinson, a white American woman who owned a doll shop in New York City and sent coded messages for the Japanese government. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover used Dickinson’s arrest and trial to draw attention to his bureau, but didn’t mention that Friedman had reviewed Dickinson’s co...
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Oct 6, 2017 · Her achievements reached their peak in World War II in what came to be known as the “invisible war.” Take us inside this murky world of espionage and counterintelligence.
Jan 8, 2018 · Elizebeth Friedman used her codebreaking skills to bring down gangsters and Nazis. Sadly, her work did not get the recognition it deserved. Between 1926 and 1930, Elizebeth Friedman decoded 20,000 messages per year in hundreds of different code systems.
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After the war ended, the Friedmans left Riverbank to work for the U.S. government, and in the 1920s, Elizebeth ran a cryptanalytic unit under the U.S. Coast Guard to monitor illicit smuggling...
Sep 4, 2019 · Later, during World War 2, she broke coded messages sent on Germany’s Enigma machines. These messages revealed a plot by the Argentinian government to help Germany replace South American governments with Nazis, giving Germany bases from which to attack America.
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During World War II, Friedman's Coast Guard unit was transferred to the Navy, where they were the principal U.S. source of intelligence on Operation Bolívar, the clandestine German network in South America.
