The Secret to Getting Top-Secret Secrets

Jason Fagone
Matter
Published in
25 min readJun 17, 2014

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How a journalist with a dark past learned to pry info from the government—and redeemed himself in the process

By Jason Fagone
Illustrations by Kristian Hammerstad
Photographs by Chris McPherson

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Jason Fagone
Matter

Working on a book for Dey Street / HarperCollins about U.S. women codebreakers in the world wars. http://blog.thecryptologists.com/