The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940 - 1952
by Thomas L. Burns
Preface
It may not be politically correct to say it, but the National Security Agency may be the last institutional legacy of the New Deal. NSA was established by President Harry S. Truman in late 1952, drawing on activities and organizations that traced from the 1930s and 1940s.
The United States had had vigorous communications intelligence (COMINT) activities in the American Civil War and World War I. After each of these conflicts, however, the organizations had been abolished and the activities ended.
Although the contribution of cryptology — both cryptanalysis and cryptography — was so far-reaching on the operations of World War II, there was little question that the activities would continue. However, the shape of the organizations to do ...
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