Espionage Archives - Page 10 of 15

Katharine Swift

Premier linguist and codebreaker at NSA reconstructing many codes during her 30-year career.

During the 1980s, Laura Holmes served as a career cryptanalyst and supervisor against a series of challenging manual cryptosystems at the NSA. She also developed considerable expertise in an impressive number of target languages.

Juliana Mickwitz

An innovative linguist who was a prime advocate of new ways of exploiting language materials and developed highly-valuable intelligence information at a time when the U.S. lacked other sources.

Juanita Moody

Signal Security Agency (SSA, later NSA) cryptanalyst

Iris Carr

Joining the NSA during WWII, she fought diligently, though quietly, for better opportunities for talented but underutilized employees.

Lillie Berry

The first African American woman in the NSA to give instruction in signals analysis and the first African American woman assigned as an Agency recruiter.

Wilhelmena Ware

Chief of the Learning Center at the NSA, where she was instrumental in instituting a number of programs, including the implementation of the sign language course.

Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein

Skilled cryptanalyst whose successful breakthrough enabled the Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) to build an analog machine that solved the Japanese diplomatic system known as “Purple.” Exploitation of this system provided crucial intelligence in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during World War II.

Hilda Faust Mathieu

Computer network pioneer Hilda Faust Mathieu was an early advocate recognizing network vulnerabilities and one of the driving forces developing security controls for network protection at the NSA.

Anna Smith Strong

Anna “Nancy” Strong was a member of the Culper Spy Ring in Setauket NY during the American Revolution.