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||1902: Reinhard Gehlen born ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War.
||1902: Reinhard Gehlen born ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War.


||1907: Solomon Kullback born ... cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov.
File:Solomon Kullback.jpg|link=Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician [[Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|Solomon Kullback]] born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.


File:Sir_William_Crookes_1906.jpg|link=William Crookes (nonfiction)|1908: Chemist, physicist, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[William Crookes (nonfiction)|William Crookes]] uses the famous Crookes tube to defeat the criminal mathematical function [[Killer Poke]] in single combat.
File:Sir_William_Crookes_1906.jpg|link=William Crookes (nonfiction)|1908: Chemist, physicist, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[William Crookes (nonfiction)|William Crookes]] uses the famous Crookes tube to defeat the criminal mathematical function [[Killer Poke]] in single combat.

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