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~ROAJIZA'nOH or AFSAJ POSITICll D DEPARTMBRT 011lBPDSB 

AID .AbED .FODSJ BELATIOR'SHIPS WI!H OTBIR U.S. ' 

.&GEMCllS AID S>DIES SUCH AS THI Ull'fED STA.TIS 

COJOabttCATIOIS IITJiLLIG.liXCI B>AID (USCIB), 

AID THI ARDD FOIDS SECURITI .iGEfl':t 

COUHCIL (AF SAC) J llISSION 10R SC.AG• 

A! 19» I ll>IQ.4,Y. 4 Jqn 1951 

qat CClllJYlP or 

lfSXAL CB.IPTOIOOIC AIHISORI <IRCIJf ( SCAG) 

eclassified and a roved for release b NSA on 09-23-2014 ursuantto E.O. 1352 
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OENTLEMEI --

--Aa Director, Armed Forces Security Agency, I wish to welcome the 

member• or the Special Cryptologic Advisory Group -- termed 

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·-Thie Group -- SCAG -· ia being sponaored by the Research and 

Development Board and the Armed Forcea Security Agency, and 

baa the support of the Central Intelligence Agency. 

--Before telling you why SCAG 1, being established and 'What benetita 

the u.s. Goveznment ehould obtain through SCAG, I lid.ah to 

give you gentle.men •ome information about the Armed Forcea 

Security Agency: 

(1) How it 1a organi1ed1 

(2) \'here it fits into the U.S. Government organisations 

(3) The Agencies it serves; 

(4) Its mission; 

( 5) And how it functions. 

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·-When I approached Mr. Webster (Chairman, Research and Development 

Board) I told him that although the Armed Forces Security 

Agency had a highly can.petent staff _... to which we were 

adding selected skilled personnel aa we could obtain than --

I believed that a group of the most outstanding technical 

~in certain field• of interest to AFSA could 

provide an invaluable aource or advice and assistance to 

the APSA organisation in meeting special problana. 

Mr .. Webster aha.red my views, and agreed that the Research and 

Development Board would jointly aponeor SCAO with the Armed 

Forcee Security Agency. 

We 4eoided that SCAG ahould tunction on an informal baeia, to 

provide much-needed aaeistance, especially concerning 

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mathemat101, canputing and analytical machinery, and in 

other £1eld• or special in~ereat to AFSA. 

-·Having found Mr. Webster thus receptive, he was provided with 

·suggestions as to those whom he might approach with a view 

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to their participation. 

I am grate:f'u.l that you gentlemen have made yourselves available 

to help in doing one ot the most important tasks in the 

National interest. we hope to add selected personnel to 

this 'roup and will welcome your auggeations as to additional 

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I do not believe that all me~bers need oome to every m$et1ng -- • 

but rather that SCAG will ultimately .f"unction in emal.ler 

groups concerned with particular problems. 

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••I do not believe we need ask tor much of your valuable time here 

in Waahington -- but I hope you will ponder our problems 

where you normally work and come here for a day or ~wo at 

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• time of1ien enough to keep 111 touch with our problems and 

our proil"•••· 

-·I do not know exactly bow SCAD llhould be organized. 

But it appears that the per80nnel we need on SCAG fall into three 

· general cateaoriee -- namely: 

( 1) Mathematic tans ; 

(2) Engineers; 

(3) Research Adl11inistratore. 

-·To •oquaint you ld. th t.he nature ot our problems we are prepared 

to tell 70u about aoms or the hichlighta ot our work in 

Wgrld "".4ll.r II ad to follow that. by preaentationa ot our 

most urcent present day probl••· 

-·I aullt aay a tew word• about security. 

We are p 1.na to C:low you gentlemen our moat h1dil1 cla•sified 

problem. 

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We auat have aeaurance that mat yau learn will not 1nadvertentl1 

be diecloaed to anyone who doe• not. need to know it• 

In the past we have trom tiae to time aolyed complex torei&11 

communication problem• pertainihg to the Ruasians. 

Invariably, lfhen we were about. to oap1tal1se on auch important 

reeults, tbe ayataa would be vlthdrawn and a new one aubltituted. 

Thua, we vere c::ontinually hadng ta atart all over again • 

. Thia could only be the reault or leak• regarding our aucceee. -. 

lleedle •• to aay, w • are theretoi-e taking every possible aeasure 

to aafeguard an7 future reaulta in thie field and, accordingl1, . 

. we muat aek yo~ tulle•t cooperation in this matter. ... 

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Inadvertent diacloaure1 can readilr nullity achievement• which 

ha ye taken mny 1kill ed people aontha and year a to achieve. 

--W• bad expected to have with ue th1a morning Lieutenant 0.-neral 

Walter Bedell Smith, the Director ot Central Intelligence. 

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The General 1• out of t.own !or a tew dlW• and cannot be w1th ua. 

However, he baa aeked Mr. Kingman Douglaae ot CIA to 1apeak tor 

him 'briefly at thia aeeting ard 1,. la there !ore ay pleaauna 

to introduce to you Mr. DoUg].aes. 

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Aa Director of the .Armed Force• Security Agenc7 an:! co-sponsor, 

'With the Research and Develo]lllent Boal'd, or the Spec:1Etl C:cyptologio 

Advisor;r Group (SCAG), I ant happy to welcome ;you as charter .membe:ra, 

110 to speak, ot SCAG. 

We had hoped to have with us at thia opening meeting Lieut. 

Genera1 Walter B. Smith, the Director of Central Intelligence, which 

organization baa taken much interest in the formation and object ot 

SCA.G. Unfortunatel)r, Oenoral. &id.th was unable to bo present and I 

ex.tend to ;you, in his absence,. his best wishes tar success in TOUr 

mission. 

In a moment or two I ahall state brief'q the wh7 am wberef'ore 

of SOAG, what the id.ea behi.Di it ia, and what we hope SCAG will be able 

to do for us and trr the Armed Foree•. Before I can do eo, however, 

it ie neceeear;y that 70U be given a bird'a-e79 view ot the A:rmed Forces 

Security Agency, hem it is organized, its position in the Department 

ot Defense and the Armed Forces, and its relationships with other U. S. 

agencies ard bodies • 

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I will mako this story ae briet as possible, not OJilT becauee we 

want. to get down to the real businese Of SCAG without undue dolq but 

aleo because some ot you, aa a reeult ot past contact with thie organ1Eat1on, are well acquainted with the tacts and I dontt want to bore 

them with what 1a an old story ao tar aa concerns them. 

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Now a tn w:rd.e aa to SOAG' a mission, Perhape I can beat outline 

this by eqing that when ! approached Dr. Webster, the Chairman ot the 

Research and Developnent Board, with a proposal tor eetablishing a 

group such ae this, I 1:rdica.ted that tor some time, the Armed Forces 

Security Agency baa been augmenting its ettorte on aaaigned tasks and 

improving its potential tar attacking new problems. I told him that 

9JJeCial mphasia has been laid on the procurement ot additional 

qualitied pereonnel, and that. although the Agency now bae & h!ghl.7 

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canpetent am ex;>«:trienced ste.tt, I believed that. a def'inite group ot 

outstarx!.in,g technical consultants in certain tields or interest to 

AFSA 'W'ould provide a valuable uource o! advice ar.d assistance to the 

AFSA organization in meeting apeoial problem .. 

Re.ppily, Dr. Webster shared rq views, and was quite willing that 

the RDB join AFSA in jointl.T sponsoring SCAO. 

We also agreed that SCA.Q uhould .tu.notion on an informal baais, to 

pravide expert technical aasistance by serving as consultants in 

. .r.iathe~tics, computing machinery, and other fields ot apeoial conco~ 

to AFSA. 

Having toum Dr. Webster thus receptive, he 1Wl8 provided with 

suggest1one as to experts whan he mf8ht approach 1Ti th a view· to their 

pa.rticipition. A list of ten names wae subnitted and it is gratif'Tin« 

that seven ot the ten have placed themselves at our disposal, The 

other three, tor one reason or another, were not a'9111lable at thie 

time, but there is a possibility that one or two ot them •ill be with 

'us at our next Conference. However, with a view to beginning with & 

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group of nine or ten charter 111ftl!lbers, we sought out and have been 

!'OL"tunate to obtain t'vo .more experts to add to our group ot seven trom 

the original list ot ten names, eo we begin with nine charter member• 

and I hope ;rou will be. willing, a.tter considering certain o! our problems 

to be discussed at this Conference, to suggest the names ot sewera1 more 

e:x;pel"ta whose! collahorati.on 70\l W'¢Uld deem helpful. 

I know that you have all he.d extensive eJq)erience with the t.T,pes ot 

problens AFSA has to dE'al with, or in .f'ields oloseq allied thereto. 

\'lith such backgrounds, and 'With the well-merited and di8'tiJ18UiBhed recorde 

each of 70\l has, we are confident that a. presentation ot certa.in ot the 

moat urgent of' AFSA' e problems will soon bo followed b,y rorthwhile 

eoritributiona to their solution. '!he speed.al apti tutee each ot ;rou w1ll 

bring to bear on thaee probler.us 1 and your realisation or their importance, 

can have tar-reaching consequenoea tor our national defense. 

I have ju.et ref'erred to the 0importa.nce or certain of AFSA's problems 

&n1 the et.f'eat that their solution could B1ld. TrOuld have in national 

defense. Thia lea.de direct]¥ to the presentation to tollow, an:I I will 

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now ask Capt.. Wenger, '1111' deputy in oharge ot AFSA • • communicati one 

intelligence operations, to direct a ruw minutes ot ,.our attention to 

the use and value ot COF!lNT in national detenee, as exempli1'i•d °bT sane 

of our wcceeees in tha.t. field duri:ng World War II • 

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