their spies against the Germans though. After all, the Japanese were that ones that attacked us to bring us into the war. A man by the name of William F. Friedman played a significant role in the world of American Espionage. [Volkman, 74] After working to decode ciphering machines in World War I, Friedman looked to break the code of the Japanese ciphering machine named PURPLE. [76] To do this Friedman worked with a the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) to come up with a ciphering machine of their own that was considered unbreakable. [75] It took him a while, but after working seven days a week, for twelve hours a day, for four months and finally cracked the machine. [75] This was the beginning of something huge for the Americans because they had a great deciphering man in Friedman. Friedman’s group of mathematicians and intelligence was called the Magicians. [77] Throughout the war they helped decipher many Japanese originated messages that were critical military moves. [81] One of the greatest moves Friedman made was in the interception of the fortifications of Normandy, which made D-Day possible. [81] His efforts led to the creation of a counterpart of PURPLE that allowed the USA to decipher its’ messages. [81] The Magicians and Friedman played a major role in making the defeat of Japan and Germany possible by deciphering messages and creating counterparts to cipher machines.Another help that USA Espionage did in the war was because it could show evidence of military moves. One of the greatest moves it foretold was that Germany was going to attack Russia. [Richelson, 113] It was recorded that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden summoned Maisky, an Ambassador of resent German redeployments of forces towards Russian and informed him of this:In the past forty-eight hours the information reaching us had become more significant. The troop concentrations might be for the purpose of a war of nerves, or they mig...
