Nahum Bernstein

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Nachum Bernstein was a US lawyer who acquired bugging, wiretapping and surveillance skills while working on insurance cases. During World War Two, he worked for the [[Office of Strategic Services, where he learnt the method of one-time pad encryption. In 1947, he was recruited to teach intelligence-gathering and cryptography to the Zionist Haganah militia.[1]

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  1. Stacy Perman, Spies Inc. Business Innovation from Israel's Masters of Espionage, Pearson Education, 2005, p.59.