Clandestine Women
Heroes and Legends: The Moe Berg and Virginia Hall Stories
Celebrity Spies
Ghost Armies
Oh So Special
Our Secret Constitution
Getting the Message
Through
Operation: Spycraft
Instituting Signals and Signs -
The Ancients and Early Americans
Keen Lookouts and Little Flags -
The Civil War
The Great War - World War I
The Wizard War - World War II
Cold War I and Cold War II

Power Pigeons: Communications
When the Lines Were Cut
All 6 programs support several Virginia SOL curriculum areas.
Operation: Cold War
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Getting the
Message Through
Ingenious Ways Devised to Convey, Compromise, and Encrypt Messages
"Getting the Message Through" sends you on a journey that includes Thomas Jefferson's 19th-century encoding system and the immense contributions of the Father of American SIGINT, Albert J. Myer during the Civil War, to the technological (and not so technological) SIGINT of World Wars I and II, to modern satellite telecommunications and UAVs of the post 9-11 world.
From pigeons to predators
Cell phones...the Internet...any 21st Century information exchange is used almost by habit. Much of the initial research and development for the devices we rely on today was originally undertaken for classified government projects.

6 Communications Programs
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Communications and signals intelligence are too important to squeeze into a single, 60-minute overview. For a more complete offering, we have six programs that will give your audience a captivating look at communications technology and how it evolved.


Each of the six presentations can be enjoyed on its own
 or as a group.
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