All in the Family: The Son of a Navajo Code Talker Shares His Father's Story
During World War II, the capability of the Allied forces to
decrypt a large number of messages sent via the Enigma machine was a significant
breakthrough for intelligence organizations around the world. Another breakthrough in codes also occurred at this time. Twenty-nine Navajo Marines developed a code from
their native language that would stump cryptanalysts around the world. The code that the Navajo Code Talkers developed protected
precious intelligence that could have lost the war for the Allied forces had it
been broken. CIA employee Glenn Nez had no idea that his father was one of the first 29 Code Talkers. more>