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Parker Hitt: The Father of American Military Cryptology

Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb, Ph.D.   Mrs. Smoot is an intelligence historian who is especially interested in 20th-century cryptology and communication and has published in Cryptologia, Federal History Journal, and Intelligence and National Security; she retired from the Center for Cryptologic History (CCH) of the National Security Agency in 2017. She is also the