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SIS

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Swedish Standards Institute[?] (since they were earlier named Standardiseringskommissionen i Sverige).
Schengen Information System.
Secret Intelligence Service.
Signals Intelligence Service[?]. This US Army Group, led by William

Friedmann, broke the Japanese Foreign Office cypher called Purple. It became, eventually, a part of the NSA.

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