The success in "cracking" this code provided the United States with critical intelligence—often referred to as —which gave the U.S. government insight into Japanese diplomatic maneuvers before the attack on Pearl Harbor [1]. Where to Watch
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This episode explores the story of the (the "Japanese Super Code"), which was used by the Japanese Foreign Office for top-secret diplomatic communications leading up to and during World War II [1]. It details how a team of American cryptanalysts, led by William Friedman at the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS), managed to reconstruct the complex Japanese cipher machine without ever having seen it [1, 2].