Good Morning,
can someone help me with a little bit about the history of the Navy's Cryptologic Intel development from 1925-1947? If there is a book, or any other reading material about a Navy Captain that had a huge part in the development of the program it would be much appreciated. Or a name of said Captain. If you dont want to post here, my profile is public and you can email me. I am an active duty Coastie, so please be easy on me.

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Originally posted by kjpark26:
If you dont want to post here, my profile is public and you can email me.

Unfortunately admin made some "wonderful changes" to the website and your profile is not public.

Movie: guy walking around in a smoking jacket all day long.. talks about leaking info about a certain island having boiler troubles.

I THINK its the movie Midway...

anyway that character is the Father of Naval Cryptology..and I cannot for the life of me remember his name.

Papa Joe something or other....

Oh no really? I had not realized that changes were made and no one can see my profile. I guess I will wait and see what answers I get here until someone asks to email me. ugh. Why would admin do that and not tell us??

Mrsjvb, thanks for the hint. I will try and google that and see what I come up with. If you remember the name, please post! =)

You were right! The Battle of Midway. It starred Charlton Heston (one version anyway) and I found my guy...Capt. Joseph Rochefort.

Thanks!

KJ - have you tried Google? I just did and got 17K hits using "history of naval cryptology" as a search parameter. There is everything from official statements from NAVSECGRU to references to authors, books, and articles on the subject.

Try reading "Combined Fleet Decoded" its about USN Cryptology in WWII.

Here's a good site...

<www.navycthistory.com/index.html>

Chock full of CT history, duty stations, etc.