1st Edition

United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers, 1775-1938

Edited By Ralph E. Weber Copyright 1979
660 Pages
by Routledge

623 Pages
by Routledge

623 Pages
by Routledge

United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers, 1775-1938 is the first basic reference work on American diplomatic cryptography. Weber's research in national and private archives in the Americas and Europe has uncovered more than one hundred codes and ciphers. Beginning with the American Revolution, these secret systems masked confidential diplomatic correspondence and reports.During the period... Read more
1: Secret Communications; 2: Ciphers in the American Revolutionary Era, 1775–1789; 3: Book Codes and Repertories in the American Revolutionary Era 1775–1789; 4: Nomenclators in the American Revolutionary Era; 5: An Anxious Republic 1789–1801; 6: Experimentation, Expansion and Crises, 1801–1815; 7: Confidential Reports from Europe and Mexico, 1816–1848; 8: A New Generation of Codes

Biography

Ralph E. Weber