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TIL 11,000 women were breaking Nazi codes in America during WWII. Among them was Elizebeth Friedman who cracked at least 3 Enigma machines and dozens of different radio circuits to decipher more than 4,000 Nazi messages saving millions of lives. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI took credit for it.

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