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William Frederick Friedman (September 24 1891 – November 12 1969) was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army’s Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. In 1940 subordinates of his led by Frank Rowlett broke Japan’s PURPLE cipher thus disclosing Japanese diplomatic secrets before America’s entrance into World War II.
