Black Chamber
The Cipher Bureau otherwise known as The Black Chamber was the United States' first peacetime cryptanalytic organization, and a forerunner of the National Security Agency. The only prior codes and cypher organizations maintained by the US government had been some intermittent, and always abandoned, attempts by Armed Forces branches prior to World War I.
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With all his borrow’d lights away,
Till night’s black wings do overtake me,
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As sudden lights do sleepy men,
So they by their bright rays awake me.”
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