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~ONFIDENTIAL 

'NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY 

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 

Serial: ·N 5069 

COM1'!1'Eff'f'iAf.i 

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 

(ATTN: General G. B. Erskine, USMC-Ret, 

Assistant to the Secretary of .Defense, 

Special Operations) 

SUBJEQT: External Support of the National Security Agency(U) 

REFERENCES: (a) NSCID #6 dtd 15 Sep 58 

(b) DOD DIR s-5100.19 dtd 19 Mar 59 

(c) DOD DIR S-5100.20 dtd 19 Mar 59 

(d) DOD DIR s-3115.2 dtd 19 Mar 59 

(e) DOD DIR S-3115.4 dtd 19 Mar 59 

(f) DOD DIR 5100.23 dtd 25 Aug 59 

(g) DOD DIR 4ooo.19 d~d 26 Mar 60 

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1. Under the terms of reference (a} and its implementing directives, referenc~s (b) through (f), the Director of the National Security Agency 

is charged with making maximum use o~ establi~hed facilities and res.ources 

of departments and agencies within the Department of Defense for the sup-· 

port of this Agency. In turn, the military departments are charged wi~~ 

providing support on the basis of the annual requirements as determine"d · and submitted by the Director, NSA. 

2. Reference (g} established policies and principles tor interservice 

support. Although this directive indicates applicability to all elements 

of DOD, this Agency interprets it to apply only to the military departments· 

because it conflicts with policies established for NSA by references (a) 

through (f). Before the issuance of reference (g), a clear understanding 

existed between the supporting departments and NSA that the support ot NSA 

was to be funded by the re~pective sqpporting element and furnished on a 

nonreimbursable basis, to N~A· Since the establishment of this Agency in 

1952, the accepted practice has been for the 1nili~ary depSJ."'tments to provide NSA with external , support on . a nonreiJD:bursable basi~. . By :such an 

arrangement, NSA has been able to concentrate its own'·funds on 6pera.t1ona1 

aspects directly related to the SIGINT and COMSEC missions of the Agency. 

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3. Conf-orming with reference (g), the military departments 

responsible for the support of NSA are placing certain requested items 

of support on a cross-servicing basis which will require funding by 

this Agency. Cross-service support will necessitate increased manpower 

for this Agency in the areas of progranming and accountiiig and'will 

cause duplication of those efforts now in existence. Th1s ~rocedure 

is in positive dis~greement with the tasking of references la) through 

(f). 

4. It is requested that the ,_,Se.crete.ry of Defense indicate the 

continued applicability of references (a) through (f) and non- · applicability of reference. {g)·to the Natio curity Agency. 

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M/R: Since the issuance of references (b) through (e), the Services have 

attempted to interpret the broadly written directives as a means of establishing a cross-service type of support for NSA. The publication of DOD 

DIR 4ooo.19 (without coordination with NSA) has provided the Services the 

means, even though tenuous, to establish cross-service support practices. 

Through support letters and tenant-unit agreements, NSA has been told that 

beginning FY-63 certain of common-service support items will become crossservice (reimbursable) items. Attempts have been made also in this direction for FY-62. A clear-cut decision on the nonreimbursable concept of 

support for NSA is required. The entire vehicle for planning and programming external support should be reviewed with the idea of placing the program on a more permanent basis. But prior to such a review, NSA either 

must be exempt from meeting the support policies of DOD DIR 4ooo.19 or 

must be prepared to pay for support. Coordinated w/COMP, PROD-02, LOG, 

and OPS/Policy. [J . 

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