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The Culper Ring was a network of spies active during the American Revolutionary War, organized by Major Benjamin Tallmadge and General George Washington in 1778 during the British occupation of New York City. The name "Culper" was suggested by George Washington and taken from Culpeper County, Virginia. The leaders of the spy ring were Abraham ...
The B-Dienst, created in the early 1930s, had broken the most widely used British naval code by 1935. When war came in 1939, B-Dienst specialists had broken enough British naval codes that the Germans knew the positions of all British warships. They had further success in the early stages of the war as the British were slow to change their codes.
Japanese naval codes. The vulnerability of Japanese naval codes and ciphers was crucial to the conduct of World War II, and had an important influence on foreign relations between Japan and the west in the years leading up to the war as well. Every Japanese code was eventually broken, and the intelligence gathered made possible such operations ...
U.S. Army Signals Intelligence Service cryptologists, mostly women, at work at Arlington Hall circa 1943. The Code Girls or World War II Code Girls is a nickname for the more than 10,000 women who served as cryptographers (code makers) and cryptanalysts (code breakers) for the United States Military during World War II, working in secrecy to break German and Japanese codes.
Burkina Faso. VOL (1972–1984) as Upper Volta; also BKF [ 1] [31] CAF. Central African Republic. AFC (1968) [32] CAM. Cambodia.
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War Plan Gray [ 16] There were two war plans named Gray. The first dealt with Central America [ 16] and the Caribbean, and the second dealt with invading the Portuguese Azores. [ 17] War Plan Brown [ 18] Dealt with an uprising in the Philippines. [ 19] War Plan Tan [ 20] Intervention in Cuba.
Bishop (1945) – covering operation for Dracula. Diplomat (1944) – Allied exercise in preparation for joint operations against the Japanese. Dukedom (1945) – British search and destroy operation for Japanese cruiser Haguro. Exporter (1941) – British and Commonwealth invasion of Vichy French -held Syria.