GettyImages-156909911 2 | How the US Spied on Allies and Adversaries Alike

Swedish businessman and inventor of encryption machines, Boris Hagelin (1892 – 1983) with one of his company’s products, circa 1970. A tape attached to the front of the cipher machine bears the plaintext and encrypted versions of the text ‘BORIS HAGELIN STOP BORN HADSHCIKENT RUSSIA STOP JULY EIGHTEEN NINETY TWO STOP’. (Photo by Tony Evans/Getty Images)