‘The intelligence coup of the century’

For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.

By Greg Miller Feb. 11, 2020

  

For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.

The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for U.S. troops during World War II. Flush with cash, it became a dominant maker of encryption devices for decades, navigating waves of technology from mechanical gears to electronic circuits and, finally, silicon chips and software.

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