George Fabyan
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"Colonel" George Fabyan was an American businessman who founded a private research laboratory. Fabyan's laboratory pioneered modern cryptography and was the forerunner of the NSA. The National Securit
George Fabyan
Newspaper report of the 1916 trial, Chicago Tribune, depicting (left to right) Fabyan, Tuthill, Shakespeare, Selig.
William F. Friedman
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William Frederick Friedman was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. In 1940
George Fabyan
…known to be old friends. Elizebeth Smith, a Shakespearean scholar, was employed by Fabyan to work with Gallup. Later, a geneticist employed by Fabyan, William F. Friedman, joined the effort, initially as a photographer, and then later drawn into the cryptography effort, such that he eventually became the head of the Codes…
William Friedman
Riverbank Laboratories
SIGABA cipher machine
Bust of Friedman on display at the National Cryptologic Museum, where he is identified as the "Dean of American Cryptology".