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245 00 Breaking Japanese diplomatic codes :|bDavid Sissons and D 
       Special Section during the Second World War /|cedited by 
       Desmond Ball and Keiko Tamura. 
264  1 Acton, A.C.T. :|bANU E Press,|c2013. 
300    1 online resource 
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520    During the Second World War, Australia maintained a super-
       secret organisation, the Diplomatic (or 'D') Special 
       Section, dedicated to breaking Japanese diplomatic codes. 
       The Section has remained officially secret as successive 
       Australian Governments have consistently refused to admit 
       that Australia ever intercepted diplomatic communications,
       even in war-time. This book recounts the history of the 
       Special Section and describes its code-breaking 
       activities. It was a small but very select organisation, 
       whose 'technical' members came from the worlds of Classics
       and Mathematics. It concentrated on lower-grade Japanese 
       diplomatic codes and cyphers, such as J-19 (FUJI), LA and 
       GEAM. However, towards the end of the war it also worked 
       on some Soviet messages, evidently contributing to the 
       effort to track down intelligence leakages from Australia 
       to the Soviet Union. This volume has been produced 
       primarily as a result of painstaking efforts by David 
       Sissons, who served in the Section for a brief period in 
       1945. From the 1980s through to his death in 2006, Sissons
       devoted much of his time as an academic in the Department 
       of International Relations at ANU to compiling as much 
       information as possible about the history and activities 
       of the Section through correspondence with his former 
       colleagues and through locating a report on Japanese 
       diplomatic codes and cyphers which had been written by 
       members of the Section in 1946. Selections of this 
       correspondence, along with the 1946 report, are reproduced
       in this volume. They comprise a unique historical record, 
       immensely useful to scholars and practitioners concerned 
       with the science of cryptography as well as historians of 
       the cryptological aspects of the war in the Pacific. 
600 10 Sissons, David|q(David Carlisle Stanley),|d1925-2006. 
610 20 Allied Forces.|bSouth West Pacific Area.|bAllied 
       Intelligence Bureau. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xCryptography. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xSecret service|zAustralia. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xElectronic intelligence|zAustralia. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xMilitary intelligence|zAustralia. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|zJapan. 
650  0 Cryptography|zAustralia|xHistory. 
650  0 Military intelligence|zAustralia|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  7 HISTORY|zAsia|zJapan.|2bisacsh 
700 1  Ball, Desmond,|eeditor. 
700 1  Tamura, Keiko,|eeditor. 
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