Below is the list of NSA/CSS historical publications. PDF and text versions are available for two-page monographs and brochures. All booklets must be requested through the Center for Cryptologic History via email at history@nsa.gov.

Pre WWII Era (Prior 1914)

Subject Title Author Date Format
Cryptology Masked Dispatches Cryptograms and Cryptology in American History 1775-1900 Ralph E. Weber 1993 Booklet - For copies of this manuscript, e-mail history@nsa.gov
Friedman The Friedman Legacy: A Tribute to William and Elizebeth Friedman Center for Cryptologic History 1992 Booklet - For copies of this manuscript, e-mail history@nsa.gov
Rum Runners A New Kind of Detective Work Patrick Weadon 2001 Monograph - PDF or Text version
Rum Runners Listening to the Rumrunners David P. Mowry 2001 Brochure - Text version
Signals Intelligence Radio Intelligence on the Mexican Border, World War I: A Personal View Richard Egolf Monograph - Text version

WWII Era (1941-1945)

Subject Title Author Date Format
African-Americans The Invisible Cryptologists Jeannette Williams with Yolande Dickerson 2001 Brochure - Text version
Bombes The Secret of Adam and Eve Jennifer Wilcox 2003 Monograph - Text version
COMINT A History of US Communications Intelligence during WWII Policy and Administration Robert Louis Benson 1997 Booklet - For copies of this manuscript, e-mail history@nsa.gov
COMINT A Priceless Advantage: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway and the Aleutians Frederick D. Parker 1993 Booklet - For copies of this manuscript, e-mail history@nsa.gov
Cipher Machines German Cipher Machines of World War II David Mowry 2003 Brochure - PDF or Text version
Code Talkers Origins of the Navajo Code Talkers Patrick Weadon 2002 Monograph - PDF or Text version
Enigma Solving the Enigma - History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe Jennifer Wilcox 2001 Brochure - PDF or Text version
Enigma The Cryptographic Mathematics of Enigma Dr. A. Ray Miller 2001 Brochure - Text version
Holocaust Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 Robert Hanyok 2004 Brochure - PDF or Text version
Mathematics How Mathematicians Helped Win WWII John Clabby for Center for Cryptologic History 2005 Brochure - Text version
Midway The Battle of Midway: AF is Short of Water Patrick Weadon 2000 Monograph - Text version
Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor Revisited US Navy Communication Intelligence 1924-1941 Frederick Parker 1994 Booklet - For copies of this manuscript, e-mail history@nsa.gov
Pearl Harbor The Quiet Heroes of the Southwest Pacific Theater Sharon A. Maneki 1996 Booklet - For copies of this manuscript, e-mail history@nsa.gov
Pearl Harbor West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy - A Document History * Robert Hanyok and David Mowry 2008 Monongraph - PDF
SIGSALY A History of Secure Voice Coding: Insights Drawn from the Career of One of the Earliest Practitioners of the Art of Speech Coding Joseph P. Campbell Jr. and Richard A. Dean 2001 Brochure - PDF or Text version
SIGSALY SIGSALY Story Patrick Weadon 2000 Monograph - Text version
SIGSALY The Start of the Digital Revolution: SIGSALY Secure Digital Voice Communications in WWII J. V. Boone and R. R. Peterson 2000 Brochure - Text version
Women Sharing the Burden: Women in Cryptology during WWII Jennifer Wilcox 1998 Brochure - Text version

Cold War (1948-1991)

Subject Title Author Date Format
Cold War A Dangerous Business: The U.S. Navy and National Reconnaissance During the Cold War John R. Schindler 2004 Brochure - PDF or Text version
Cold War CT3 Edward Purcell Patrick Weadon 2003 Monograph - PDF or Text version
Cold War Dedication and Sacrifice: National Aerial Reconnaissance in the Cold War Center for Cryptologic History Brochure - Text version
Cold War SSgt Donald Hill/A2C Earl Radlein Jr Patrick Weadon 2002 Monograph - PDF or Text version
Cuban Missile Crisis NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis Thomas R. Johnson and David A. Hatch 1998 Brochure - Text version
VENONA The VENONA Story Robert Louis Benson Brochure - PDF or Text version
VENONA VENONA Soviet Espionage and the American Response 1939-1957 Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner 1996 Booklet - For copies of this manuscript, call 1-800-553-6847. Reference number #PB96928010.

Korean War Era (1950-1953)

Subject Title Author Date Format
Korean War PFC Jay Stoner Patrick Weadon 2001 Monograph - PDF or Text version
Korean War The Korean War: The SIGINT Background David A. Hatch and Robert Louis Benson 2000 Brochure - Text version
Pusan Perimeter SIGINT and COMSEC Help Save the Day at Pusan Patrick Weadon Monograph - Text version
Pusan Perimeter So Power Can be Brought into Play: SIGINT and the Pusan Perimeter Jill Frahm 2000 Brochure - Text version

Vietnam War (1954-1975)

Subject Title Author Date Format
Vietnam Essential Matters History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Vietnam 1945-1975 Translated and edited by David W. Gaddy 1994 Booklet - For copies of this manuscript, e-mail history@nsa.gov

NSA/CSS National Cryptologic Memorial

Subject Title Author Date Format
They Served In Silence SGT Joseph Nolan Patrick Weadon 2005 Monograph - PDF or Text version
They Served In Silence SGT Pinson Patrick Weadon 2006 Monograph - PDF or Text version
They Served In Silence SSG DazaChacon Patrick Weadon 2006 Monograph - PDF or Text version
They Served In Silence SSG Gene Vance Patrick Weadon 2003 Monograph - PDF or Text version

Miscellaneous

Subject Title Author Date Format
Anniversary 50th Anniversary Brochure NSA Publication 2002 Brochure - PDF or Text version
Books Rare Books in the National Cryptologic Museum Center for Cryptologic History Brochure - Text version
Cryptology American Cryptology: Two Centuries of Tradition Center for Cryptologic History Monograph - Text version
Cryptology The Voynich Manuscript - an Elegant Enigma M. E. D'Imperio 1978 Booklet - For copies of this manuscript, call 301-688-6524, or e-mail history@nsa.gov
Information Security Securing Record Communications: The TSEC/KW-26 Melville Klein 2003 Brochure - PDF or Text version
Mathematics Women in Mathematics Society Michelle D. Wagner 2003 Monograph - Text version
Museum Showcase of the National Security Agency The National Cryptologic Museum: A 10-Year Anniversary Retrospective Jack Ingram 2003 Brochure - Text version
NSA The Origins of NSA Center for Cryptologic History Brochure - Text version
Tordella In Memoriam Dr. Louis Tordella Brochure - PDF or Text version