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About the Book

Once more we find ourselves in the early days of the Cold War when the world teetered on the cusp of nuclear annihilation. Both sides, the Soviets and the West, deployed thousands specializing in Signal Intelligence (SigInt) to detect the slightest movement of the enemy on land, sea or air so as to get the edge on them in any coming conflict. In Hong Kong the British were intercepting all ChiCom traffic within reach of their extensive antenna field while along the coast the United States was tapping into that nation’s transmissions from the Philippines, Formosa and Okinawa and northern Japan and learning in the process the locations of their various military units.

About the Author

Alfred Cook was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934. Twenty years later he joined the Army Security Agency, an organization then spinning out of the Signal Corps and devoted to the interception and breaking of ciphers and codes. To learn his trade he attended a specialized school at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Following that he spent six months in Tokyo and two-and-a-half years in the Philippines. After attending King’s College and Rutgers University he taught school in New Jersey and Maine. Later he would work as an antique dealer and later still edit several weekly newspapers