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1921: William Friedman joined War Department
1931: US Coast Guard Established Cryptanalytic Section
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1946: Army-Navy Crypto Equipment Coordinating Committee Established
1945: Cryptographic Security Board established
1917: General Order, No. 8 - established HQ, AEF in France
2005: al-Qaida Bombings in London
1942: Arlington Hall Station - Official Military Intelligence Post
1892: Boris Hagelin inventor of Convertor M-209 cryptodevice, born
1977: VADM B. R. Inman, USN, became DIRNSA
1942: President Roosevelt Limited COMINT Activities to the Army, Navy, & FBI.
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1943: Project BEECHNUT established.
1865: First US patent for cipher device to Edwin H. Hawley
1918: William Friedman reports to AEF G2A6 Chaumont, France
1993: National Cryptologic Museum opened to NSA/CSS personnel, their families, & to other members of Intelligence Community.
1977: House of Representatives Established Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
1951: State Department established liaison unit at Arlington Hall.
1957: First public acknowledgment of NSA
1918: Signal Corps began first communications security monitoring in France
2016: The NSA Hawaii (NSAH) facility was dedicated as the Washington Wong Building.
1949: AFSA formally activated, RADM Earl E. Stone, USN, named director.
1995: CIA Public Ceremony for VENONA Declassification
1928: ENIGMA Introduced into German Army
1951: MG Ralph J. Canine, USA, named Director, AFSA
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1943: First WAC personnel arrived at Arlington Hall Station.
1586: Mary, Queen of Scots, sent treasonous coded response to the Babington Letter.
1988: Eight year Iran-Iraq War ends.
2004: 9/11 Commission Report Released.
1911: Cryptologic pioneers Parker Hitt & Genevieve Young were married.
1942: Gen MacArthur moved HQ to Brisbane. Central Bureau moved in Sept.
1919: Patent issued to Gilbert Vernam for concept of machine encipherment.
1976: Joseph Rochefort, who led Station HYPO in WWII, died.
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1984: GUNMAN Project found typewriter implants in U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1889: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, noted cryptanalyst, was born.
1939: Meeting of Pyry took place.....
1947: National Security Act Passed.
1866: First use of transatlantic telegraph cable.
1916: U.S. Navy Code & Signal Section was established.
1806: Aaron Burr’s “Cipher Letter” to General Wilkinson, leading to charges of treason against Burr.
1917: Capt Frank Moorman tasked to form Radio Intelligence Section.
1924: William Friedman receives first of 30 patents....
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1942: The WAVES were established....
1918: The "Wabash" Field Code was issued.
1919: Agnes Meyer Driscoll was discharged from the US Navy & in 1959, retired from NSA.
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