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The National Security Agency's Beale files: document

Documentmixed (agency records; the press clippings and private papers keep their own copyright)Beale Cypher Association 'Historical and Analytical Studies', 7 March 1970 and 15 April 1972Copy of The National Security Agency's Beale files
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The release page lists fifteen PDFs on its first page, among them both Beale Cypher Association studies, Carl Hammer's "Signature Simulation and Certain Cryptographic Codes", "Beale Treasure - Fact or Fiction" and a copy titled "Beale, The Beale Papers". The PDFs on media.defense.gov refused this session, so their contents were not checked.

National Security Agency, 1970. mixed (agency records; the press clippings and private papers keep their own copyright)

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DocumentNational Security Agency · nsa.gov · 2021-07-15 · mixed (agency records; the press clippings and private papers keep their own copyright)Primary source: The Beale Papers (declassified document release)1 step from the original

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