Matt Zullo
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: History, Narrative Nonfiction
Matt Zullo is a retired U.S. Navy Master Chief Petty Officer who worked in the US Intelligence Community. He has more than 40 years' experience in Radio Intelligence, now more commonly known as Communications Intelligence. He holds a Master's degree in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University, where he researched and wrote his master's thesis on the On-The-Roof Gang. He has published numerous articles on the On-the-Roof Gang on internal work websites, in the Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association's Cryptolog magazine, and on his social media platforms. As the only quantifiable expert on the On-the-Roof Gang, he has spoken at the 2009, 2011, and 2013 Cryptologic History Symposiums, as well as at several Navy and History events around the world. He nominated Harry Kidder for the National Security Agency's Cryptologic Hall of Honor and was a guest at the induction ceremony. Learn more at www.ontheroofgang.com and www.mattzulloauthor.com.
Matt Zullo's books
Genres: History, Narrative Nonfiction
THE US NAVY'S ON-THE-ROOF GANG: VOLUME 2 - WAR IN THE PACIFIC is a narrative nonfiction book based on the true-life story of the "On-The-Roof Gang." It is a sequel to THE US NAVY'S ON-THE-ROOF GANG: VOLUME 1 - PRELUDE TO WAR.This second volume begins with the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and documents the contributions of the On-the-Roof Gang during World War II. It focuses on the wartime stories of the On-the-Roof Gang intercept operators, some who were stationed in Hawaii, some who survived a tortuous existence in a POW camp, others who had to evacuate their intercept sites, and still others who performed intercept operations while at sea during some of the most famous naval battles of World War II.
Genres: History, Narrative Nonfiction
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
THE US NAVY'S ON-THE-ROOF GANG: VOLUME I - PRELUDE TO WAR is a narrative nonfiction book based on the true-life story of the "On-The-Roof Gang," the U.S. Navy's fledgling radio intelligence organization in the years leading up to World War II. It is based on the real life of Harry Kidder, a U.S. Navy radioman who first discovered and deciphered Japanese katakana telegraphic code while stationed in the Philippines in the 1920s, discovering that he was listening to Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) radio communications. Kidder strongly believed in the future of radio intelligence and a chance meeting with Lieutenant Laurance Safford led to the birth of the Navy's Radio Intelligence community. Kidder taught others the nascent art of intercepting IJN communications on the roof of the Main Navy Building in Washington, DC. From 1928 to 1941, 176 Sailors and Marines attended this training and were then stationed as radio intercept...