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U.S. Navy Codebreakers, Linguists, and Intelligence Officers against Japan, 1910-1941 - A Biographical Dictionary (Hardcover)
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U.S. Navy Codebreakers, Linguists, and Intelligence Officers against Japan, 1910-1941 - A Biographical Dictionary (Hardcover)
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This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were
key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the
Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose
advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented
techniques, procedures, and equipment from scratch, not only
allowing the United States to hold its own in the Pacific despite
the loss of most of its Fleet at Pearl Harbor, but also laying the
foundation of today's intelligence methods and agencies.
One-hundred years ago, in what was clearly an unsophisticated
pre-information era, naval intelligence (and foreign intelligence
in general) existed in rudimentary forms almost incomprehensible to
us today. Founded in 1882, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence
(ONI)-the modern world's "oldest continuously operating
intelligence agency"-functioned for at least its first forty years
with low manning, small budgets, low priority, and no prestige. The
navy's early steps into communications intelligence (COMINT), which
included activities such as radio interception, radio traffic
analysis, and cryptology, came with the 1916 establishment of the
Code and Signals Section within the navy's Division of
Communications and with the 1924 creation of the "Research Desk" as
part of the Section. Like ONI, this COMINT organization suffered
from low budgets, manning, priority, and prestige. The dictionary
focuses on these pioneers, many of whom went on, even after World
War II, to important positions in the Navy, the State Department,
the Armed Forces Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and
the Central Intelligence Agency. It reveals the work and
innovations of well and lesser-known individuals who created the
foundations of today's intelligence apparatus and analysis.
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