Code Breaking Central In Brief Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	noun • the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information
	31%	12		Code-making and code-breaking
	noun • the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms • act of writing in code or cipher
	23%	8		Relation breaking code in advance
	noun • short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

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New York Times03 Dec 2009	Down 8
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