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- Title
US intelligence exposed as student decodes Iraq memo.
- Authors
Butler, Declan
- Abstract
Armed with little more than an electronic dictionary and text-analysis software, Claire Whelan, a graduate student in computer science at Dublin City University in Ireland, has managed to decrypt words that had been blotted out from declassified documents to protect intelligence sources. She and one of her PhD supervisors, David Naccache, a cryptographer with Gemplus, which manufactures banking and security cards, tackled two high-profile documents. One was a memo to U.S. President George Bush that had been declassified in April for an inquiry into the 11 September, 2001 terrorist attacks. The other was a U.S. Department of Defense memo about who helped Iraq to 'militarize' civilian Hughes helicopters.
- Subjects
UNITED States; IRAQ; INTELLIGENCE officers; MEMORANDUMS; ELECTRONIC data processing; CRYPTOGRAPHY; INTELLIGENCE service
- Publication
Nature, 2004, Vol 429, Issue 6988, p116
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/429116b