15may Bob Passwords
Cold Open. This is the declassified record titled “15 May Bob Passwords,” a memorandum dated thirty September, nineteen fifty‑nine. It details an arrangement of a password for a wartime meeting code‑named “BOB” in nineteen forty‑three, and it appears in the holdings of The Black Vault, a public archive of United States government documents.
- Agency
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- Date
- JUL 18 · 2026
- Release
- Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
- Source document
- View the primary source documenthttps://archive.org/details/15may_bob_passwords
Episode notes
Cold Open. This is the declassified record titled “15 May Bob Passwords,” a memorandum dated thirty September, nineteen fifty‑nine. It details an arrangement of a password for a wartime meeting code‑named “BOB” in nineteen forty‑three, and it appears in the holdings of The Black Vault, a public…
Source document: https://archive.org/details/15may_bob_passwords
Questions about this case
- What was 15may Bob Passwords about?
- Cold Open. This is the declassified record titled “15 May Bob Passwords,” a memorandum dated thirty September, nineteen fifty‑nine. It details an arrangement of a password for a wartime meeting code‑named “BOB” in nineteen forty‑three, and it appears in the holdings of The Black Vault, a public archive of United States government documents.
- Why was this case declassified?
- This material was released by the National Security Agency (NSA) through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked in the case notes above so the citation chain is fully auditable.
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