Formation of the Agency
The United States has been conveying and intercepting messages of a confidential and encrypted nature through codes and other means since as far back as the War for American Independence. The transmission of cryptologic messages evolved at the advent of radio transmissions during World War I when intelligence from foreign nations was beginning to be followed and intercepted.
During World War II (WWII), the United States successfully broke the codes of the Germans and Japanese. This garnered US success “against the German U-Boat threat in the North Atlantic and victory at the Battle of Midway in the Pacific” (Howe,
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