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WWII Code Breaker And NSA’s First Female Deputy Director, Ann Caracristi, Dies At 94

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Ann Caracristi, the first female Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), code breaker and a pioneer of using early computers in cryptanalysis during World War II, died Tuesday at the age of 94. Caracristi, unlike other code breakers of the time did not have a degree in mathematics, but in English and History. Caracristi graduated from Russell Sage College in Troy, N.Y in 1942. In a transcript from the Veterans History Project: Stories From The Veterans History Project, Caracristi said her recruitment to the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS), which became the NS

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