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'l'eP BBefiB'l' H\O'l"fl 12 January 1954 

MEMORANDUM F<E CHIEF OF STAFF 

SUBJEC'l': General McClure's Remarks on the Report of the 

Special Study Group (RS ~ s.Y- o o is) 

l. In my opinion the connents of General McClure, Deputy A.C. of 

s. 1 G-21 are of such a nature that they should be referred to PROD for 

comment. 

2. a. In the first place it should be noted that the Special 

Study Group of NSASAB nowhere in its Report set forth the potentialities 

of COMINT in such a way as to constitute a gua.rantee that it will or 

could provide four to twelve weeks' warning. What the Report actually 

says on this point is contained in the second and third para.graphs of 

the Sumnary, page 2: 

"COMINT is now providing substantial inform.tion on Soviet 

capability to initiate and sustain an attack against the United 

States. In addition, it is probable that COMINT, particularly 

through Special Intelligence, could give warning of Soviet 

intention to mount such an attack. The reliability of this 

strategic warning would increase with the approach of the attack, 

with first indications appearing 4 to 12 weeks prior to the 

attack. 

"This potentiality can ~"' be fully realized only with an 

increase in the current level of effort. However, significant 

inprovement can be affected by more intensive exploitation of 

the present COMINT program." 

b. This wording certainly mentions only potentialities and 

gua.rantees nothiog. 

3. a. Rei' erring to par. 2 of General McClure's comments, the Study 

Group's uie of the term "Soviet," taken in the narrowest sense, could be 

misleadiog, particularly in the condensed Summary on page 2. 

b. General McClure concurs with the Study Group in regard to 

the importance of the contribution which the solution of the high-level 

cr,yptosystems could make to the problem of advance warning. Whether 

G-2 can be of any help to us in digging up information which apparently 

CIA has thus i'ar been unable to obtain, I do not know. It is possible 

that Army's CIC could help us. 

c. 'With reference to the reJJBrks contained in par. 5 of General 

McClure's-comments, these seem to put G-2 on the defensive, and appear to 

be based only on the statements on personnel made in the Swmnary. The 

Study Group's contentions in the body of the report and in the Appendix, 

refer especially to research, development and analytic NSA civilian 

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COMINT a rewarding and satisfying career seems to have been missed. 

4. I urge that these papers be sent to PROD for comment, and to 

R/D tor information. 

C/i)~~~ WILLIAM F. FRIEIJWV 

Special Assistant 

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