The Coast Guard is naming the 11th Legend-Class National Security Cutter (NSC) in honor of Elizebeth Smith Friedman. Friedman was a pioneering code-breaker for the Coast Guard during the Prohibition ...

Jason Fagone, The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies G. Stuart Smith, A Life in Code: Pioneer Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith ...

Historical fiction plays up places like Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, England, as romantic and exciting despite the very real threat of Nazi invasion and bombing during World War II. Women made ...

"The Codebreaker," premiering this week on PBS' "American Experience," tells the story of Elizebeth Friedman, a visionary American codebreaker who established our decryption programs during World War ...

This comprehensive biography centers Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892–1980), one of America’s most important and little-known code breakers, who had a profound impact on WWI and WWII. Greenfield ...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Codebreaker” tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S.

Elizebeth Friedman and her husband William in an unnamed, undated photo. Elizebeth Smith Friedman was born to a Quaker family in rural Indiana, but a meeting with an eccentric millionaire who believed ...

Friedman first became something of a celebrity during the Prohibition era, when the Coast Guard—faced with a ceaseless flood of liquor coming into the country by ship—persuaded her to turn her ...

LEXINGTON, Va. (WDBJ) - A Lexington museum is hoping for some help with restoring an artifact in its collection. The painting of Elizebeth Friedman, in the collection of the George C. Marshall ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is naming the 11th Legend-Class National Security Cutter (NSC) in honor of Elizebeth Smith Friedman. Friedman was a pioneering code-breaker for the Coast Guard during the ...