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 with a brief summary. Click on any of the entries to view a PDF of the full issue.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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Memorial Day at NSA; Faurer task group report; Calkins lecture; akaSmart; 2006 golf tournament; Librarian retires; For the Bookshelf, and additions to Memorial Registry.
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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.
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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.
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ASA Oki lives; Bletchely Park post office visit; Kami Seya disaster recalled; Last WWII Comanche code-talker; and Safford papers found.
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Markle on Civil War telegraphy; Eagle Alliance golf tournament; Future of INFORM system studied; A.K.A Smart advances; and Memorial Day at NSA.
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The Russian M-125 Fialka; Memorial Registry
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David Shulman dead at 92; Tribute to Art Green; Acquisition of the Harris collection; Remembering Britain's Peter Twinn; Col Dr. Wladyslaw Kozaczuk.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Spy museum to open in D.C.; The role of the BOMBES in exploiting ENIGMA; British acknowledge operator hearing loss; GCHQ plans to move.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Before ENIGMA - Polish cipher bureau 1919-1922; NCM happenings; and Nazi WWII crimes and declassification of records.
