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- noun Plural form of
codebook .
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Examples
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The meticulo us preparation and sheer chutzpah of the operation — infiltrating a secretary, distracting the embassy staff, sending in a safe-cracker, photographing and replacing the codebooks within hours — was extraordinary, not least because it had to be undertaken monthly when the codes changed.
The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011
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The tales of OSS derring-do — one agent, Virginia Hall, had a prosthetic leg from a prewar hunting accident but was still parachuted into Occupied France — are thrilling and none more so than the elaborate effort, in July 1941, to burgle the safe in the Spanish embassy in Washington for the diplomatic codebooks.
The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011
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Many issued lead-covered codebooks that could be tossed safely—that is, irretrievably—into the sea if the ship was boarded by hostile parties.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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He told me my father had been the coxswain of the boarding party and had played a pivotal part in the capture of U-110 – more so with the codebooks than the actual enigma machine.
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That certainly applied to communications; the BPF had no choice but to adopt U.S. codebooks and procedures.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Many issued lead-covered codebooks that could be tossed safely—that is, irretrievably—into the sea if the ship was boarded by hostile parties.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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The men stripped the slowly sinking sub, throwing the material – including the Enigma machine and codebooks – to another whaler that pulled alongside.
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A clutch of Americans held out for hours in a secret vault room, furiously shredding documents, destroying codebooks, and smashing communications gear, until students grabbed diplomat John Limbert, put a gun to his head, and threatened to kill him unless those in the vault gave themselves up.76 When that door opened, the students were angry that so many documents had been destroyed.
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
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The enigma machine and codebooks were taken to Bletchley Park and the rest is history.
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That certainly applied to communications; the BPF had no choice but to adopt U.S. codebooks and procedures.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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