THE REWARDS OF COMINT

DOCID: 3928649UNCLASSIFIEDThe Rewm·ds of COMINTDuring the Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces engaged in the intercept of telegraph mes-sages from the other side, often profiting by the intelligence derived from reading plain text or decrypt-ing messages sent in code or cipher. In late 1864, as General U1ysses Grant was at the gates ofRichmond, the Confederates received special benefits from what one source calls the "most successfulwire tapping of the war."For six weeks, a Confederate...