![]() ![]() “No, no!” Then she admitted that she did smoke and just didn’t want a cigarette badly enough to leave the apartment. “Do you want a cigarette, by the way?” Elizebeth asked her guest, then realized she was all out.Įlizebeth was embarrassed. It had been several days since she smoked. The NSA woman had a tape recorder and a list of questions. Sixty years after she got her first job in codebreaking, when Elizebeth was an old woman, the National Security Agency sent a female representative to her apartment in Washington, D.C. Our thanks to Jason Fagone and Harper Collins for allowing us to share a portion of this book with the Longreads community. Their contributions continue to influence the U.S. Friedman, a pair of “know-nothings” who invented the science of codebreaking and became the greatest codebreakers of their era. ![]() Below is an excerpt from The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone’s riveting new book chronicling the work of Elizebeth Smith Friedman and William F. ![]()
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