it took awhile, to almost 70 years, but they finally put herbert yardley in the hall of honor at the a so maybe there's still a chance for ed snowden at some point. yardley's book was the first written on the organization of the crypt illogic organization, the next one to write was david conn who wrote a book called the code breakers in 1967 which told a lot about the nsa. it was the most -- the biggest expo's they of the nsa that happened since herbert yardley and the nsa went to a lot of trouble to try to get rid of the book. they even considered, this came out in the senate intelligence committee report, surreptitious entry to his house, tried to steal the manuscript, clandestine service applications, whatever that is, kidnapping, termination, whatever, worst of all they were going to plan some disparaging press reviews about his book which as an author you take every other option before that one. like yardley, in 1995 they made him official, the first official scholar and president at nsa and the book that they were trying to ban, they put it in the library. again, more hope for e