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In the middle of the 17th century, Samuel Morland introduced an early form of columnar transposition.[citation needed] The technique was developed further over the next two centuries and became widely used in the late 19th and 20th centuries, notably by French military services, Japanese diplomats, and Soviet intelligence agencies.