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services among other things. The Signal Corps also trained personnel and signal units for service with forces in the field. The evolution and activities of the Signal Intelligence Service before and during World War II is discussed in detail in Chapter XI, "Signal, Security, Intelligence," (pp. 327–350) in The Signal Corps: the Outcome, an official history of the Signal Corps.
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for most of World War II. At that time the Signal Corps was a bureau in the Headquarters, Department of the Army, in addition to being a branch of the Army to which personnel were commissioned or appointed. The Signal Corps supplied the Army with communications and photography equipment and
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Chapters 2 and 3 (pp. 4–25) in Army Field Manual FM 11-35, 1942, describe the organization of the Signal Intelligence Service in the War Department and in the forces in the field and the functions performed by SIS units. That manual was marked "RESTRICTED" when it was issued.
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had been developed and research continued. The Venona project was so highly classified, however, that the government never introduced evidence from these messages into court proceedings in prosecution of alleged espionage agents.
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The organization grew rapidly and organized efforts were made to recruit bright women. By the end of the war, most of the SIS staff, some 7,000 out of a total 10,500, were female.
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division through World War II. It was founded in 1930 to compile codes for the Army. It was renamed the Signal Security Agency in 1943, and in September 1945, became the
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The Army intercept network during WWII had six fixed stations, which concentrated on Japanese military signals and Axis diplomatic traffic.
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made the first break into the Venona code. Decrypted messages revealed the existence of Soviet espionage at the
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Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939–1945
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On 20 December 1946, after the war and at a time of increasing US tensions with the Soviet Union,
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began the division with three "junior cryptanalysts" in April 1930. Their names were
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Index

National Defence Radio Establishment (Sweden)
United States Army
codebreaking
Army Security Agency
Arlington Hall
Arlington, Virginia
Potomac River
Washington (D.C.)
Army Security Agency
National Security Agency (NSA)
U.S. Army Signal Corps
William Friedman
Frank Rowlett
Abraham Sinkov
Solomon Kullback
George Fabyan
World War I
U.S. Department of War




William Friedman
Frank Rowlett
Abraham Sinkov
Solomon Kullback
Ann Z. Caracristi
National Security Agency
Japanese army codes
Ann Z. Caracristi (cryptanalyst)

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