Author: Weber, Ralph Edward
Title: Masked Dispatches : Cryptograms and Cryptology in American History, 1775-1900
Description: [Fort George G. Meade, MD], National Security Agency, 1993. orig.wrappers. 27x21cm, vi,236 pp, Series: Center for Cryptologic History, United States Cryptologic History, Seriea 1, Pre World War I, Volume 1. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: United Colonies' Code; "Friend Jimmy Ciphers": James Lovell & Secret Ciphers during the American Revolution; The Church Cryptogram: Birth of our Nation's Cryptology; America's First Espionage Code; Dictionary Codes; General George Washington's Tradecraft; American Postal Intercepts; Department of Finance & Foreign Affairs Codes; Jefferson- Patterson Codes; Jefferson's Cipher Cylinder; A Classic American Diplomatic Code; John Quincy Adams' Sliding Cipher; Aaron Burr's "Cipher Letter"; The First U.S. Government Manual on Cryptography; Nicholas Trist Code; Internal Struggle: The Civil War & Reconstruction; Sewards' Other Folly: America's First Encrypted Cable; 1867 State Department Code; Chief Signal Officer's Code for the State Department; "Cipher" Dispatches & the Election of 1876; John H. Haswell: Codemaker; The Red Code of the Department of State, 1876; U.S. Military Cryptography in the Late 19th Century; 1899 Blue Code.

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