Edgar Hoover and the FBI take credit for her invisible, instrumental work.
The subject of Jason Fagone’s excellent biography The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies ( public library), Friedman triumphed over at least three Enigma machines and cracked dozens of different radio circuits to decipher more than four thousand Nazi messages that saved innumerable lives, only to have J. While computing pioneer Alan Turing was breaking Nazi communication in England, eleven thousand women, unbeknownst to their contemporaries and to most of us who constitute their posterity, were breaking enemy code in America - unsung heroines who helped defeat the Nazis and win WWII.Īmong them was American cryptography pioneer Elizebeth Friedman (August 26, 1892–October 31, 1980).
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