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Cipher Bureau: Directed by Charles Lamont. With Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Joan Woodbury, Don Dillaway. The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Charles Lamont
- 1938-10-26
Cipher Bureau is a 1938 American film directed by Charles Lamont. The film was successful enough to elicit a sequel, Panama Patrol. Plot. Philip Waring, the head of a listening agency in Washington D.C., is dedicated to breaking up a foreign radio-spy ring. He enlists his naval-officer brother and tangles with beautiful spies. Cast
Cipher Bureau may refer to: Cipher Bureau (United States), aka Black Chamber (1919–1929), the US government's first peacetime cryptanalytic organization; Cipher Bureau (Poland) (Biuro Szyfrów), the interwar Polish unit charged with signals intelligence, cryptography and cryptanalysis that broke the German cipher machine Enigma
The Black Chamber, officially the Cable and Telegraph Section and also known as the Cipher Bureau, [clarification needed] was the first peacetime cryptanalytic organization in the United States, operating from 1917 to 1929. It was a forerunner of the National Security Agency (NSA).
Apr 6, 2023 · The Cipher Bureau then begins to decrypt encoded diplomatic communications from America’s most important adversaries. Yardley gives his Bureau its first real success by breaking a Japanese diplomatic code. Download chapter PDF.
- John F. Dooley
Aug 20, 2021 · An agreement between the Acting Secretary of State and the Secretary of War in May 1919 created the Cipher Bureau. The original concept called for a $100,000 annual appropriation, with the Army providing 60 percent.
Philip Waring, head of the Cipher Bureau, is trying to break up a Washington spy ring which is transmitting radio messages in code. Philip discovers some of their code books in an unsuccessful raid, but ringleaders Simon Herrick and Albert Grood elude him.
