Elizebeth Friedman: World's Premier Code Smasher

From a farm in Indiana to the Nation's Cryptographer-in-Charge, she led the way in solving one code after another. WW I German codes, prohibition codes and kingpins, mobsters and gangsters, and drug lords, all fell before her ability to crack the cleverest codes and ciphers. She broke three German Enigma codes, not with a machine, but with a paper and pencil.