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FILE NO. I SUBJECT Comments on Trip Report by Professor Wilks 

TO Mr. Friedman, S/ASST FROM 'illCHDIR/PROD DATE 11 Jan 55 COMMENT NO. 1 

1. T'nis rEport ccvers the highly controversial visit made by Dr. Wilks to GCHQ. 

There have becL extremely informal reactions reaching PROD on a personal basis from 

GCHQ suggesting that Dr. Wilks' visit was not looked upon with favor at GCHQ, and thet 

Dr. Wilks in hif questioning innocently and accidentS.::..ly got onto some extremely 

delicate grounC.. 

2. This rEport reflects a strong undertone of disapproval for the present 

70-90 organizat:1on, which is not a new concept but is interesting coming from NSASAB. 

He accurately pcrtrays British feelings on the subject. 

3. As to paragraph 8 on selection of personnel by tests, I personally cannot 

agree with him. This subject of testing has been investigated for years. The Navy 

in the last war had a large number of psychologists who were fascinated by the 

problem. The or1ly test which we have seen in recent yea.rs in which we had any appreciable confitence was in the summer of three years ago when all our most promisillE; 

junior mathema.t:1c1a.n applicants flunked polygraph and the least promising passed with 

flying colors. I cannot agree with the concept implied in this pa.ragra.pn and in much 

of the past hir:1ng of this Agency that people for T/A a.re essentially different from 

people for crypt and need not be as good. This is a blunder we are paying a terrific 

price to wipe m;t. 

4. Paragre.ph 12 implies that there is no contact at present between the.....__ __ _ I ... -------., at GCHQ and 90, this is obviously absurd. Paragraph 13 on f'urther AFSS 

representation is clearly policy but I am opposed. All Americans in GCHQ at./ Cheltenham must be und:er one command. Ti1e idea of special .AFSS representation would create 

chaos. Possibl;) AFSS is not getting everything it shoUld from the delegation at 

Cheltenham, but there is certainly adequate Air Force representation in the unit. 

5. Pa.ragre.ph 16 woUld have been the one paragraph in the paper in which I 

personally woW.6. want fUll details. After a recitation in which the number of' sherri , 

of the whole jcrket is given iP, detail, when Dr. Wilks gets to the meat/he casually 

reports "As these problems are aJ.l rather technical, I shall not discuss them here." 

Where will he'l The previous paragraph he apparently considers of more interest and 

concern to us. 

6. As to :tis reccmrnenda.tion onl lcomiog over, we should be delighted, 

but the issue is larger. Because of shortages of'funds, high cost of travel and 

dollar difficulties, very few GCHQ personnel come t.o NSA. on visits. This is particularly conspicuous when we see the number of Americans, including W.ilks, going the 

other way. This in itseli' is probably irriiit.ing to some British. It would clearly 

be to our advantage to greatly increase t:O.e visits of Britishers over here, of whom I lisuausb.:i!liIJ.e;uex.a.mple, but the list is long. If the NBA Staff can diplomatically work cut a program to accampJ .. _j_slJ. ~h~s 1 t would be :w-orthwhile. One possibility would be to get them MATS transportation. BythiSWE?1{guldn 1 t elll.barrass them rt' • ~ ·-- • - - p L 8 6- 3 6 I 5 0 us c 3 6 0 5 

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SUBJECT: Comments on Trip Report by Professor Wilks 

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by directly handing theni f .. he cash. Something of this sort is highly desirable. 

We would much rather have_ I here for a visit t!la.n Wilks at GCHQ and that 

is an understatenent. 

7. It is ol>vious that I personally consider Wills' trip to have been an 

unfortunate junket 'Which discovered no new information and created some ill will. 

It may be argued that this is offset by the sho~ in the arm to Wilks personally. 

This is in turn c:>ffset by the loss of morale by personnel on board. 

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