Talk:Gene Grabeel

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group.

Women scientists Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women scientists, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women in science on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women scientistsWikipedia:WikiProject Women scientistsTemplate:WikiProject Women scientistsWomen scientists articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Mathematics Low‑priority

	Mathematics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mathematics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of mathematics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MathematicsWikipedia:WikiProject MathematicsTemplate:WikiProject Mathematicsmathematics articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-priority on the project's priority scale.

Created Page[edit]

Hi, I've just created this page because I noticed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project mentions Gene Grabeel, but gives no further detail. I'm not an experienced editor, and I've never created a page before, but I wanted to start something. If anyone wants to contribute, I recommend the following sources:
http://www.mcmillianfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2939787&fh_id=11214
http://www.theblackvault.com/documents/nsa/venona/monographs/monograph-1.html
https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/spies/21.htm
Metabraz (talk) 12:16, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm interested in this page! I also found the following possible sources for anyone else who wants to contribute. (Some of these have to do more with the VENONA project in general than with Gene Grabeel in particular.)

- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-code-breakers-unmasked-soviet-spies-180970034/

- https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-figures-publications/publications/coldwar/venona_story.pdf

- https://www.timesnews.net/news/local-news/rose-hill-natives-honored-for-decades-of-codebreaking-cryptographic-work/article_b1db71b6-4ec4-59ed-bc8c-d9532c2dfe88.html

- https://fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/ci2/2ch4_a.htm

- https://www.facebook.com/TheAuthorHowardBlum/posts/this-is-a-photo-of-the-industrious-gene-grabeela-woman-underestimated-by-many-ye/3394957687247753/

- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1568&context=honors-theses

- https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Gene_Grabeel&birth=1920&death=2015

- https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/articles-blogs-contributions-in-newsletters/eight-new-historical-highway-markers-approved/

- https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-brilliant-venona-codebreakers-exposed-soviet-spiesand-launched-the-mccarthy-era

- https://www.tnonline.com/20210108/russia-then-and-now/

- https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nsa/cryptoalmanac/VENONA_An_Overview.pdf

- https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Venona_project (WARNING: this is also a wiki)

- https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/seminar3posters/files/gravity_forms/1-f14ea90e75361cb91bd42582a860ee01/2014/12/PDF-FINAL-VENONA-PROJECT-DALIA.pdf (this is a tertiary source)

- https://cryptologicfoundation.org/news-events/news-archive.html/article/2019/10/14/honoring-two-lee-county-code-breakers

Duckmather (talk) 04:57, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

When did Grabeel join the Signals Intelligence Service?[edit]

I think Grabeel joined the Signals Intelligence Service in 1942 or 1943. The Smithsonian article explicitly states so, and the other four sources that are used to substantiate the statement that Grabeel joined in 1936 all seem to either indicate the same answer or are ambiguous. Duckmather (talk) 05:19, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Biography category should be changed[edit]

She founded the Venona project less than 5 weeks after being recruited for Sigintel, according to the page content shown at present. This is a remarkable achievement, but has nothing to do with Academia (she taught high school, not university level), nor with Science in terms of Biography. I suggest that the category should be changed to something more accurate: Espionage, or Government Service. Martindo (talk) 11:15, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]