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Carroll Robinson
Mr. Carroll Robinson was the National Security Agency’s first black engineer and first African American Senior Executive. He was hired by the NSA’s Research and Development organization to assist in building the Agency’s first in-house developed computer, ABNER 1. At the time, R&D was one of the few areas of the Agency where African Americans and their white coworkers worked side by side to further the NSA mission. He retired from the Agency as an office chief.