The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking by David Kahn

The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking



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The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking David Kahn
Language: English
Page: 341
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0300098464, 9780300098464
Publisher: Yale University Press

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Instantly recognizable to buffs of intelligence history, Herbert Yardley became infamous in 1931 for telling a tale out of school. His The American Black Chamber romped through the exploits of the State Department's Cipher Bureau, which Henry Stimson abruptly closed in 1929, fastidiously intoning, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." Despite his notoriety-- Yardley's book ignited a furor in the halls of power, and he was blacklisted from further work in American intelligence--Yardley has not been the subject of a biography until now. Kahn tells Yardley's story with a cool eye for his reputation as a codebreaker (Kahn is the author of both general and technical works on cryptology). More important from the reading standpoint, Kahn has a decidedly interesting, angular personality to work with. Yardley was boastful and prone to exaggerating his accomplishments, a habit he accentuated in his projects to parlay his original expose into moneymaking entertainment schemes, including potboilers, Hollywood scripts, and radio dramas. Balanced and meticulous in its assessments, this biography will appeal to intelligence aficionados. Gilbert TaylorCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Review

". . . carefully crafted . . . meticulously researched . . . first to show Yardley as a living, breathing person with all the faults [of] humanness." -- Cipher A. Deavours, American Scientist

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