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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
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).
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
Apr 6, 2023 · The 1920s saw the height of success for the Cipher Bureau, followed by a long, slow decline into irrelevance. The Bureau’s biggest success came when it broke a number of Japanese diplomatic code systems and used their success to decrypt messages during the...
- John F. Dooley
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.
Jun 9, 2024 · In a covert mission against a spy ring, Philip's efforts are complicated when his brother Paul is framed. Through coded messages and unexpected alliances, the spies are thwarted, allowing for ...
- 70 min
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- Cult Cinema Classics
