On 20 December 1946, Meredith Gardner of the VENONA Project of the US Army’s Signal Intelligence Service (commonly called Arlington Hall, which would become the National Security Agency) made the first break into the Soviet cryptographic code, revealing the existence of Soviet espionage in the Manhattan Project. NSA : VENONA Document Archive
Also tagged 1946, Army SIS, Espionage, Manhattan Project, Meredith Gardner, NSA, SigInt, VENONAOn 1 February 1943 the U.S. Army’s Signal Intelligence Service, a forerunner of the National Security Agency, began a small, very secret program, later codenamed VENONA. The original object of the VENONA program was to examine, and possibly exploit, encrypted Soviet diplomatic communications. These messages had been accumulated by the Signal Intelligence Service (later renamed [...]
Also tagged 1943, Army SIS, Espionage, NSA, SigInt, VENONAAmerica’s first transatlantic radio intercept station was built on Gillin Farm in Houlton, Maine, by the US Army MI-8 Radio Intelligence Service just before the end of WWI. The Houlton Radio Intelligence Station intercepted German diplomatic communications primarily from its Nauen high power radio station. The Radio Intelligence Service (R.I.S.) was created during World War [...]
Also tagged 1918, Gillin Farm, Houlton, Intelligence, MI8, Military, NSA, Radio, RIS, WW1World War I began the modern era of code-breaking and intelligence gathering. Major Ralph Van Deman, the “father of American intelligence,” created the Military Intelligence Section in the Army General Staff, and a Cipher Bureau (MI-8) within this section. Known as the Father of Military Intelligence, Ralph Van Deman had worked as a young lieutenant [...]
Also tagged 1917, Army, Cipher Bureau, Intelligence, MI8, Military, Military Intelligence Section, NSA, Ralph Van Deman