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Articles and Pamphlets


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Carpenter, Mary, and Betty Paul Dowse. “The Code Breakers of 1942,” Wellesley (Winter 2000): 26–30.

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Christensen, Chris, and David Agard. “William Dean Wray (1910–1962): The Evolution of a Cryptanalyst,” Cryptologia 35.1: 73–96.

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