Book description
An account of the evolution of a national SIGINT effort following WWII. A discussion of the fragile trends toward unification of the military services after the war and the unsatisfactory experience under the Armed Forces Security Agency.
Table of contents
- Forewords
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Struggle to Control a Unique Resource
- Early Army-Navy COMINT Relations, 1930–1945
- The Military Services and the Joint Operating Plan, 1946–1949
- The Emerging National Intelligence Structure and the United States Communications Intelligence Board, 1946–1949
- Creation of the Armed Forces Security Agency, 1949-1952
- AFSA, the CONSIDO Plan, and the Korean War, 1949-1952
- The Brownell Committee and the Establishment of NSA, 4 November 1952
- Summary: The Struggle for Control Continues
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Notes on Sources
- Primary Sources
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940 - 1952
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2005
- Publisher(s): Center for Cryptologic History, NSA
- ISBN: 01120100006SI
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