Death and Legacy
Friedman's health began to fail in the late 1960s, and he died in 1969. Friedman and his wife donated their archives to the George C. Marshall Library, which also had been raided by NSA security.
Friedman has been inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame and there is a building named after William and Elizebeth at the NSA complex at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland. He was also presented the Medal for Merit by President Harry Truman, and the National Security Medal by Dwight Eisenhower.
Friedman has the distinction of having one of the longest known suppressed patent applications, for U.S. Patent 6,097,812, a patent for a "cryptographic system". It was filed on July 25, 1933, issued on August 1, 2000.
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