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Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
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Viewing Ideas
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Before Watching
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To help students understand the program, review the following
terms with them:
code, cipher, plain text, base code, encoded message,
additive, enciphered message,
and indicator. (See
Activity Answer
for more information.)
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Have students brainstorm what makes a good codebreaker. What
kinds of personality traits, characteristics, or skills do
students think would be good to have? As students watch, have
them take notes on the backgrounds and specialties of people
involved in breaking the Soviet ciphers.
After Watching
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Have students consider whether they agree or disagree with the
government's decision to wait until 1995 to inform Americans
about the VENONA project. What were some of the implications of
this decision?
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