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oapen-20.500.12657-335292021-04-30T08:32:08Z Breaking Japanese Diplomatic Codes: David Sissons and D Special Section during the Second World War Ball, Desmond Tamura, Keiko world war 2 cryptography Australia Cipher Empire of Japan GCHQ London Multiple encryption Russia Tokyo bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general::GPJ Coding theory & cryptology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBW Military history::HBWQ Second World War During the Second World War, Australia maintained a super-secret organisation, the Diplomatic (or `D’) Special Section, dedicated to breaking Japanese diplomatic codes. The Section has remained officially secret as successive Australian Governments have consistently refused to admit that Australia ever intercepted diplomatic communications, even in war-time. This book recounts the history of the Special Section and describes its code-breaking activities. It was a small but very select organisation, whose `technical’ 2013-11-21 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:49:54Z 2020-04-01T14:49:54Z 2013 book 459995 OCN: 857812304 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33529 eng application/pdf n/a 459995.pdf http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/asian-studies-series/breaking-japanese-diplomatic-codes ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_459995 10.26530/OAPEN_459995 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 Canberra open access
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During the Second World War, Australia maintained a super-secret organisation, the Diplomatic (or `D’) Special Section, dedicated to breaking Japanese diplomatic codes. The Section has remained officially secret as successive Australian Governments have consistently refused to admit that Australia ever intercepted diplomatic communications, even in war-time. This book recounts the history of the Special Section and describes its code-breaking activities. It was a small but very select organisation, whose `technical’
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