3.3(h)(2) REF ID:A516905 

86-36/50 USC 3605 

NAS Serial 000566-S Subject: The Potentialities of COMINT for Strategic 

Warning (Report of Special Study Group, NSA Scientific Advisory Board) 

OPD (26 Oct 53) 1st Ind Mar 5 1954 

HEADQUARTERS, USAF SECURITY SERVICE, San Antonio, Texas 

TO: Director, National Security Agency, Washington 25, D. c. 

1. The report of the NSA Special Study Group has been reviewed by 

members of my staff and has received a most favorable response. 

2. Two major proposals, which I believe parallel the findings of 

the committee, are being developed within this Headquarters for implementation at the earliest practicable time. These are the 

both of which are 

in past operations. 

3. The report of the NSA Special Study Group will continue to receive close study within this Headquarters with a view towards improving 

the COMINT product of the USAFSS. 

1 Incl 

w/d 

/s/ 

H. H. BASSETI' 

Brigadier General, USAF 

Commander 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY 

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations 

Washington 25: D. C. 

From: Chief of Naval Operations 

To: Director, National Security Agency 

Subj: Delayed reply to correspondence 

Op-202T/ge 

19 Nov 1953 

Ref: (a) NSA ltr Ser 000566-S of 26 Oct 1953 with enclosure 

1. This will acknowledge receipt of reference (a). 

2. Reply will be delayed for the following reasons: 

Recommendations ma.de and inadequancies mentioned in the 

enclosure will require further study. 

3. It is expected that a reply will be mailed by 15 Jan 1954. 

/s/ 

GIFFORD GRANGE 

Captain, U.S. Navy 

Assistant Head, Security Branch 

Naval Communications Division 

By direction 
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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY 

WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 

'fOP SECRE~ SECURI'i'Y IHPOHMNf'ION 

Serial: 000566-S 

26 October 1953 

SUBJECT: The Potentialities of COMINT for Strategic Warning (Report 

of Special Study Group, NSA Scientific Advisory Boa.rd) 

TO: Chief, Army Security Agency 

The 'Pentagon 

Director, Naval Communications 

The Pentagon 

Commander 

U. s. Air Force Security Service 

San Antonio, Texas 

1. One copy of the subject report is forwarded herewith for your 

information. In view of the comprehensive nature of this report, I request 

that it be given the most limited circulation on a "need-to-know" basis. 

2. This report is based on a study undertaken by the NSA Scientific 

Advisory Board at my request. My purpose in requesting this study was to 

obtain an objective evaluation of the contribution which COMINT can or could 

make to the warning of an impending attack on the United States. 

3. Many of the individual members of the NSA Scientific Advisory Board 

have been serving as consultants, within their respective scientific fields, 

to the various activities of NSA since March, 1951. Consequently, they have 

become familiar not only with the specific scientific aspects of COMINT 

activities, but also with the broader problems encountered by this Agency in 

fulfilling its COMINT mission 

4. This report is now under study by NSA to determine the actions 

which ma.y be appropriate in implementing the reconnnendations of the Special 

Study Group, NSA Scientific Advisory Board. 

5. Any comments which you may desire to make on this report will be 

appreciated. 

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RAIPH J. CANINE 

Lieutenant General, US Army 

Director 

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