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Who Was the Woman Behind American Codebreaking?

Who Was the Woman Behind American Codebreaking?

Part-Time Genius · iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

November 15, 201745m 56s

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Every week, the FBI, CIA and Treasury Department would show up to Elizebeth Friedman's door and hassle the mother of two-- not for any crime, but because she had an insane talent: she solved puzzles to protect America. Meet the Quaker poet who caught gangsters, defeated Nazis and unlocked a new world of Codebreaking in this episode-long interview with "The Woman Who Smashed Codes" author Jason Fagone.

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