![]() ![]() ![]() In this way it wins public support - and, it hopes, public money. Putting on display what used to be some of the most closely held secrets of the United States, it tells the public some of the great things that cryptology has done for the nation - the lives it has spared, the treasure it has saved. The NSA, smarter than the others, established a National Cryptologic Museum. The NSA, the CIA, the NRO had to come out of the shadows. And the defense establishment had to find new ways of maintaining its funding. I sometimes feel as if I should hold up that notice the way Harry Truman, after he won in 1948, triumphantly held up that Chicago Tribune with a banner headline shouting: Dewey Beats Truman. And now here he is, speaking at its 50th anniversary. He revealed that America was breaking codes! Hated less only than Martin and Mitchell. It was never to be acknowledged when the media - or anybody else - asked about it, as at cocktail parties. A notice was circulated here at Fort Meade and was sent to all NSA outposts worldwide. Who'd have thunk that I would ever be here, addressing an NSA audience?īecause when my book, The Codebreakers, was published in 1967, just 35 years and one month ago, it became the subject of a ban on the part of the National Security Agency. Remarks of David Kahn on the National Security Agency's 50th AnniversaryĬommemorating the 50th Anniversary of the ![]()
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