ABSTRACT
Gene Grabeel stared at the papers on her desk. They were gibberish. Pages full of nothing but random letters, numbers, and spaces. But it was supposed to be a code. In 1943, the SSA was in charge of intelligence and spy activities, and Gene had just been assigned to the Venona project. It was a project that would last for 40 years. During Second World War, the Soviet Union fought with America and Britain against the Nazis, but Carter W. Clarke, a US Army intelligence officer, didn’t trust Joseph Stalin. It took 3 years before cryptanalysts were able to crack the code. It was incredibly complex because the Soviets used a one-time pad system. This meant that the person sending the code was using a code book with randomly generated letters and numbers. When they finally broke the code, the Venona team learned that Chief Clarke was right. The Soviets were spying and had even had spies on Manhattan Project.
