Quotes About Elizebeth

But the FBI didn't intercept the messages. It didn't monitor the Nazi circuits. It didn't break the codes. It didn't solve any Enigma machines. The coast guard did this stuff—the little codebreaking team that Elizebeth created from nothing.

For the first eight months of the war, as incredible as it sounds, William and Elizebeth, and their team at Riverbank, did all of the codebreaking for every part of the U.S.

This is how the history of the Invisible War would become distorted; these are the small decisions that erased Elizebeth from the record and later allowed J. Edgar Hoover to take credit for her achievements.

Until 1930, almost all codebreaking for the U.S. government's planetary war against smuggling was handled by these two tired and perpetually overworked women, Elizebeth and her clerk

The director of the FBI had been boasting about catching spies he did not really catch. Elizebeth, who did catch them, bragged about her family.