The
National Security Agency’s Center for Cryptologic
History (CCH) preserves and advances understanding of
cryptologic history for NSA, the United States Intelligence
Community,
the Department of Defense, other government agencies,
academia, and the general public. CCH provides objective,
meaningful historical support to NSA leadership and the
workforce to enhance decision-making, cryptologic knowledge,
and esprit de corps. CCH also serves as NSA’s historical
outreach to academia and the general public. The CCH
produces unclassified
histories of cryptology that can
be obtained and ordered.
A major feature of CCH public outreach is the biennial Cryptologic History Symposium, last held in late October 2003. This is a venue for leading cryptologic historians and experts, both from NSA and around the world, to present papers on new avenues of historical research. The next symposium is scheduled for fall 2005.
CCH staff consists of professional historians who are veterans of cryptologic operations. CCH can be reached at the address below:
National Security Agency
Center for Cryptologic History
Suite 6886
Fort Meade, MD 20755
301-688-2336
history@nsa.gov
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Cryptologic History News
Cuban Missile Crisis
History of the NSA Insignia
Korean War Commemoration
Pre-1952 Historical Timeline
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