NCF E-News & "The Link"
(early NCMF newsletter)
We keep our community informed with program-related e-notes, as well as periodic more comprehensive e-newsletters. We also invite you to explore the early NCMF newsletters - included below on this page.
We paused our full e-newsletters at the end of 2025 and look forward to resuming publication. A selection of 2025 e-news links are included below. Please note that due to the updates to our website, links within those e-newsletters are longer be valid. Click the Issue to view a PDF.
- August 2025, Issue 133: NCF Cyber News – Catch up on our news & get details about upcoming programs and events.
- April 2025 E-note: Farewell to Gen Haugh and Ms. Wendy Noble
- Feb 2025, Issue 132: Youth & Cyber, Convening to Acts, & More News
The Link - Early Hard-Copy Newsletters from the NCMF (1998-2012)
The Link NCMF Newsletter Header with Original Logo
From 1998 to 2012, David Gaddy (former NCMF Board Member) served as the editor of a very interesting and newsy NCMF hard-copy publication titled, The Link. Though David made many contributions to the NCMF, this publication was perhaps his greatest legacy.
The publications include research articles, opinion pieces, tributes, news-related stories, Hall of Honor reviews, and many include regular features such as “For the Bookshelf” and “The Historian’s Corner.” Over the years the look of the bulletin may have changed, but the content remained exceptional.
Below is a listing of issues of The Link. Click for a brief summary, as well as a link to view a PDF of the full issue.
May 2012: "An Inquisitive Mind: The John Nash Letters"
This issue contains articles on: The John Nash Letters on display at the NCM; a discussion of SIGINT support to counterintelligence (a review of materials held in the NCM of decrypted Soviet intelligence services radio messages of the 1930’s and ’40’s is provided); and the Historian’s Corner. Click to view the full PDF.
December 2011: "Attack on the Liberty: A Retrospective"
This issue includes articles on the “New and Improved” Civil War Exhibit at the NCM, a comprehensive article, “Attack on the Liberty: a Retrospective,” and the Historians Corner. Click to view the full PDF.
February 2011: "Civil War Communications and Cryptology"
NSA Historian’s Corner; Civil War Communications and Cryptology to include The Coming of the Telegraph, The War, The U.S. Military Telegraph Corps During the Civil War; President Lincoln’s Command Structure; and General Sherman and Military Communications. Click to view the full PDF.
Summer 2008: "The Changing Face of the NCM"
Hall of Honor 2006: James Pryde, Brig Gen Bernard Ardisana, Edward Everett, Cecil Phillips, Tom Tremain. Hall of Honor 2007: Jacob Gurin, Dr. Robert Hermann, Sam Snyder, Milt Zaslow; New NCM Poppy exhibit, and 2006 and 2007 General Meeting, Click to view the full PDF.
Spring 2006: "Memorial Day 2006 at NSA"
Memorial Day at NSA; Faurer task group report; Calkins lecture; akaSmart; 2006 golf tournament; Librarian retires; For the Bookshelf, and additions to Memorial Registry. Click to view the full PDF.
Winter 2005-2006: "NSA Announces Annual Rowlett Awards"
Rowlett Awards; General Dynamics contribution; Western Union ends telegraph service; Booz Allen & Raytheon contributions; The Hell Ships; Boone book promoted; and NCMF Patrons and Sponsors. Click to view the full PDF.
Fall 2005: "Laurels and Lectures"
New Director of NSA Research; Hall of Honor 2005: Dr. William Blankinship, Francis Raven, Arthur Salemme, and RADM Joseph Wenger; USS Pueblo commemorated; NCMF year in pictures; and 7th annual general membership meeting. Click to view the full PDF.
Summer 2005: "Gen. Alexander USA, New NSA Director"
ASA Oki lives; Bletchely Park post office visit; Kami Seya disaster recalled; Last WWII Comanche code-talker; and Safford papers found. Click to view the full PDF.
Spring 2005: "New NCM Curator: Meet Patrick Weadon"
Markle on Civil War telegraphy; Eagle Alliance golf tournament; Future of INFORM system studied; A.K.A Smart advances; and Memorial Day at NSA. Click to view the full PDF.
Winter 2004-2005: "Command at the Museum - Ingram Steps Down; Weadon New Curator"
The Russian M-125 Fialka; Memorial Registry, and More. Click to view the full PDF.
Fall 2004: "NCMF General Membership Meeting 2004"
David Shulman dead at 92; Tribute to Art Green; Acquisition of the Harris collection; Remembering Britain’s Peter Twinn; Col Dr. Wladyslaw Kozaczuk. Click to view the full PDF.
Summer 2004: "Cryptologic Hall of Honor 2004 & More"
Hall of Honor inductees: Dorothy Blum, Dick Chiles, Meridith Gardner, Brigadier John Tiltman; Remembering Martha Schuchart-Sachs; Kruh book collection sold; Bletchley Park 2004 ENIGMA reunion; 2004 Eagle Alliance golf tournament; Morrison’s magic carpet; Jim Pryde – Tuskegee airman to cryptologist; and NCMF acquires two Hebern cipher machines. Click to view the full PDF.
Spring 2004: "Navy Aerial Reconnaissance Commemorated"
Death of NSA’s historian emeritus – Hank Schorreck; ASA veterans support A.K.A. Smart; Bletchley Park – “Secret Stories”: The Women’s Role; KG-13 obtained for the museum; more on the NCM; death of Hugh Skillen; The Wilsons and cryptology: a navy family in two world wars. Click to view the full PDF.
Winter 2003-2004: "Museum's Tenth Birthday Observed"
Remembering Thomas R. Dewey; Pueblo remembered; WWII women in government; Cryptologic toys from the golden age of radio; Closing Bad Aibling Station; and Bletchley Park – The American Garden Trail. Click to view the full PDF.
Fall 2003: "Conferences, An Anniversary and a Surprise"
Annual general membership meeting – 2003, Homeland Security the theme; Kahn’s rare books come to the NCM; Rededication of the C-130 memorial; Pearl Harbor redux; 2003 Cryptologic history symposium; and New exhibit on the challenge of foreign languages. Click to view the full PDF.
Summer 2003: "The Museum Park - A Vision of the Future"
Why a new Cryptologic Museum is needed; Eagle Alliance annual golf tournament; Additions to the memorial registry; A WWI radio interception site; Lewis and Clark and the Jefferson Cypher. Click to view the full PDF.
Spring 2003: "Cryptologic Hall of Honor 2003 & More"
Inductees – Lambros Callimahos, Dr. Lowell Frazer, Juanita Moody, and Howard Rosenblum; Through the KGB eyes; National History competitions; The Lewis and Clark expedition; NSG celebrates 68th; Farewell to the Navy Wullenwebers; and U.S. Navy phonetics. Click to view the full PDF.
Fall/Winter 2002: "Remembering Pearl Harbor - The Bandsmen - Cryptologists"
Spy museum to open in D.C.; The role of the BOMBES in exploiting ENIGMA; British acknowledge operator hearing loss; GCHQ plans to move. Click to view the full PDF.
Fall 2002: "NSA Turns 50!"
NSA’s birthday party; ASA lives; In memoriam – Richard Helms; death of P.W. Filby; Bill Williams new chief of Center for Cryptologic History; original NSA facility at Meade renamed The William and Elizebeth Friedman Building; and more on the BOMBE. Click to view the full PDF.
Summer 2002: "NCMF 4th Annual General Membership Meeting & More"
Jim Boone honored; 50th anniversary of NSA; Women in the secret war; 50th anniversary commemorative calendar; Museum developments; Death of Meridith Gardner; Solving the ENIGMA. Click to view the full PDF.
Spring 2002: "Cryptologic Hall of Honor 2002 & More"
Inducted – CAPT Thomas Dyer, Dr. Richard Leibler, Mit Mathews, Jr., Charles Tevis, Dr. Julia Ward, and Norman Wild; National History Day in MD; Counterintelligence program; Douglas Pike, Viet-Nam War historian dies; Solving the ENIGMA: history of the cryptanalytic BOMBE. Click to view the full PDF.
Summer 2001: "Annual Cryptologic Hall of Honor Ceremony"
Inductees – Howard Barlow, Mahlon Doyle, Dr. Sidney Jaffe, and Maj. Gen. USAF (Ret) John Morrison); Guarding our coast .. with cryptology; Beale treasurer a hoax?; Alan Turing remembered; and A world of languages. Click to view the full PDF.
Spring 2001: "Director Commends, Re-affirms Support for Foundation Work"
DIRNSA cites NCM as “one of NSA’s most precious assets”; Foundation sponsors; Spyplane vs routine surveillance; Battle of Midway commemorated; Atlas and the early days of computers; and Memorial Registry. Click to view the full PDF.
Winter 2000-2001: "Before ENIGMA"
Before ENIGMA – Polish cipher bureau 1919-1922; NCM happenings; and Nazi WWII crimes and declassification of records. Click to view the full PDF.