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Who Was the Woman Behind American Codebreaking?

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:48:41
Publish Date: 2017-11-15 07:00:00
Description:

Every week, the FBI, CIA and Treasury Department would show up to Elizebeth Friedman's door and hassle the mother of two-- not for any crime, but because she had an insane talent: she solved puzzles to protect America. Meet the Quaker poet who caught gangsters, defeated Nazis and unlocked a new world of Codebreaking in this episode-long interview with "The Woman Who Smashed Codes" author Jason Fagone.

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