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General Irwin, Colonel Clarke, Members ot the Faculty and 

Staff of the Offioera Division of the Arrq Security Agency School, 

Manbers of the Graduating Class, Fellow Zendians, ladies and gentlemen: 

It seems that eveI7 time a class is about to graduate from the 

Officers Division or the Army Security Agency School somebody from 

the Organization and Training Section of the AI'fffT Security Agency 

Statr comes scurr/ing around bunting tor me in 1111 lair, to invite 

me to take part in the graduating exercises. I imagine that the 

theo17 behind this summons is that I have had lots of experience 

and may have something diverting or useful to offer from my 

participation in graduations of the past. I'm sure that there are 

some who assume that as an old Si3119-l Corps hand, I was present at 

the graduation exercises of the carrier pigeons which Noah released 

tram the Ark and some d&Ta I feel that it I wasn't there I succumbed 

before Noah finished building the first aircraft carrier in history. 

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Well, anyhow, on the bare chance that the-re might be something 

to the theory behind the invitation I accepted it; bu.t no sooner had 

I done so than I began wor171ng about what I could Say'. However, I 

did not begin sericn,is]¥ on the business of worrying until a d~ or 

so ago, when, letting tree association take aver subconscious 

cerebration, .. rq thoughts reverted to last SUnday, which 7ou will 

remember was one of the hottest days we've had so tar. I'd planned 

to play some golf but it was entireq too hot for an old man so I 

stqed home and busied myself', not with my stamp collection, but 

'!1th my collection or cryptographic items. L17 better n~neMtentbs 

had laid d~wn the law, more or less, and had told me that it was 

high time that I cleared out some of the larie accumul.3.tion of old 

pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, etc., that I'd aaved on the ~re 

chance that there might come a ~when I'd have the opportunit7 to 

cut out tor my scrap book everything I had ever encountered having 

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aiv bearing upon my fields of interest. (A bad case or 11collect1mania, n 

you see.) ?1ell, among the many doodads I had saved I came across . 

this little thing, which the next day I took to the office and sent 

to the historical files. Bat yesterday, when I was casting aliout in 

my memo17 for something to use as a jumping off place, I remembered 

it and asked that it be brought back to me. It's rather amusing--

but it's also instructive. First I'll read you what it says on the cover. 

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We had, I assure you, aoma difficult problems and exercises for 

. the students in those d&Ts but they also had momenta or fUn and levit7 

during school hours, just 'as I am inform.ad by IDJ' secret Zend1an Agent 

bas been the case in tbe school dqa just completed by this class. . . 

Incidentally, rq secret agent, I can tell you now that school is over, .. , 

was none less than Marshall Salvo Salvasio billself, whom unfortunateq 

none ot the members ot this class is in a position to punish for hi1 

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treaaon b7 court martial proceedings, because bets already out in 

- the field~ collecting 2-headed, 6-fingared gentry to do hie dirty 

work in the next claaa. 

But to revert. to the days or old, thi• little program, ladies and 

gentlemen, was the program for the graduation exercises held in r, 

home just 10 years ago. There were onq two students, a.nd the faculty 

tau;ht their subjects in addition to their reeular duties which wera 

mal".\f indeed. The entire student body, faculty, statt, officers ot the 

Univera1 ty, etc. , could foregather in the living room of a small 

house. Little did Sl\V' of us then visualize the growth that l&f ahead 

or what I had then facetioualg called the 3ienal Intelli~enee University. 

But here we are toda7, with a class or 25 officera,'mazv of whom ~ve 

had wide experience in the mi~tary i'ield; a staff and faculty 0£ 

almost 20; ~ large auditorium; an Army band; and a vary distinguished 

guest speak.er to.mark the occasion of this graduation. Yee, we ha•• 

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coae a long WBJ' since 1938 and 1n the growth of that tin? nucleus 

·which I bad facetiouslJ' dubbed na University.n And I am happy t~ 

sq that with the physical growth in size and number of studenta 

in the Universit7, there bas been an.even greater br~eDin3 or the 

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scope of the instruction, a growth that.corresponds to the astonishing 

development that has taken place in the field. 

, This brings me directly to the plea.aant task which was assigned 

me -- to introduce the next speaker who will present the graduation 

message on this occaaion. I have just aa1d that we'have coma a long 

way in'cryptology since the founding of the nucleus of the Artq Securit7 

Agenc7 School and I do not think there is anybod.J' inside or outside 

this auditorium who can seriously challenge the statement which I am 

in a good position to make, l'l&ID&ll', there ia one and ~nl7 one man to 

whom belo!'lgs the lion 1 s share of tho credit for not onJ.T the growth 

of the Si~nal Intelligence University but also for the vital role tb~t " J 

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the Anq Security' Agency played in winning the last war and for 

the prominent position the AJency has rightful.11' bean given in the 

Rational Military Establishment. 

I have known Colonel Clarke, Chief or the Army Security Agency, 

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tor a good mal'.\Y years. Indeed, he was a student of mine for a short 

time when I gave eacli year for about 10 years what was designated 

moat unwarrantedq as a "course in codes and c~phers" at the Signal 

School at Fort ~onmouth• It was a 2-weeks' "quickie" and I tried to 

cover a lot of territoey. I know that I must have said at leaet a 

few things that made a more or less lasting imp~esaion, because 

ever'f once in awhile.Colonel Clarke goes back tO. tboso days and remind• 

me o£ some incident that I related, from which he drew a lesson that 

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has remained with him over the years. I am al•ys startled on th;eso 

occaa1ona because I cannot remember the incident m7aelt. It 111&7 be , 

that I was responsible for evoking the interest which ha took in th• 

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tield of cryptology and which led bill step by atep to a position in 

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which he could Pl.e7 a prmainent role in quiding the daatinias of our 

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organization. Colonel Clarke had seen t~t organization grow froa a 

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one-cryptanalyst, one-clerk unit set up i?l1921 in the Office of the Chief 

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Signal Officer tQ a world-wide agency nwnb,ring over 14,000 people at the 

height of the war in 1945. It waa his forea~ght and broad vi•ion from the , I \ 

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~eara after 1940·•hich stimulated and foste~ed\ that growth and enabled the I ~ 

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' . war. It was his.vision which after the war y,\as ~ver led to the establiabllent. 

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of th• Army 3ecur,i.t7 Ageney aa a separate entity. 1 And I am sure I am telling '• ' 

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no secrets whe~ l.~ indicate that it waa hie 1nit1at,..ive and forthright action I , 

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which led to tbe.:recent events involving certain u~ operat.ions in 

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our field. 

With thia background, I am sure 7ou will all air•• with ma that ~ 

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