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IEPARTMEN.l' Of THE ARMY -~e-LZ(' Office of The Adjutant General 

Washington 25, D. c. . .. ' AGAa-& 311.S (26 Apr 48)CSGI)ja.M 29 April 1948 .J " 

SUBJECT: Maintenance of Cryptographic Equipment 'b7 

Department of State Personnel 

TO: CoJllJll8nders•in-Chief, 

Far Fa st Command 

European CoDllllD.nd 

Chief, Ar'1113' Field Force a 

Commanding Generals 

u. s. Army, Caribbean 

U. s. Ar'f!r3', Ala ska 

u. s. Army1 Pacific 

Trieste United states Troops 

:military Distriat of Washington 

Armies, Zl ' 

Independent Commands undml' the Dept; of the Arey 

u. s. Military Attaches 

1. The Departnent of Stato has authorized their Foreign Service 

communico.tion technicians to service tho cipher me.Qh.ines held by United 

states Military 1 .. ttaches, during scheduled visits of t"hesa technicians 

to Foreign Service posts. These vi-sits are mde oil an average o~ once 

, every four months. Listed below are tho present homb sta1;1ons of Foreign 

Service communieation technicians and th'e locations. of' the Foreign Service 

posts usually sorviced by' each. 

HCl1E srlLTION 

London 

Paris 

Rome 

Borlin 

Cairo 

Buenos lLires 

Panama 

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SERVICE 

Coponhagan, Helsinki, Ba.blin, Oslo, and stockholm , - . Brussels,:1'o.ngiers, The Hague, LisboR, Madri.d and Bern 

Athens and Belgrade . .. I J 

Prague 1 Buda pc st 1 War saw 1 and Bucharest L 

Sofia, Teheran, Baghdad, Beirut, D:lmascus, and Ankara 

Ia Paz, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, .l'a.suncion, Lima and 

Montevideo 

Bogota, San Jose, Havana, Ciudad Ti"Ujlllo, Quito, San 

Salw~r, Guatemala City, Port-au-~inoe, Tegucigalpa, 

Mexico Citf.I; Managua, and Caracas 

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CO.IIERl'UL 

Declassified and approved for release by NSA on 05-28-2014 pursuantto E.O. 1352a 
AGAO-S .311.5 (26 Apr 48)o3GID-M Contd 29 April 1948 

Subjects lllhintenanae of Cryptographic Equipment by DeJ>ortment of sta~e 

Personnel 

HOME STi1TION SERVICE 

New Delhi Kabul and Kara chi 

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Shnnghai Nanking1 Ma~, and Bangkok 

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Canberra Sydney (Melbourne) and Wellington 

2. No Foreign Service maintemmce per~nnel are presently avnilable at Pretoria, MosCC>W, ottawa, or Singapore. Attaches 1n theso areas 

will be notified separately by the Army Security Agency, Washington, n.c. 

of the arrangements far tH:e servicing of their equipmant. 

' 3. Nornnlly the Foreign Service communication technic~ns will 

maintnin Atta.cha machines only on scheduled visits and1 because of the 

time and expense incurred by additional travel, will not be subject to 

·.cnll f'.rom thoh- home stations. However, in cnse of an exbrema Qmergcncy 

when rapid cryptographic comnnmicntion i'S essential, a Military Attache 

is authorized to request such maintemnce service. This request, hmvever, 

'ftlould be mde by the /a.ttache to the local Foreign Serri.ce est.ablishmont 

ratb.er than direat to the Foreign Service esl;ablishmont where the technicio.n is located. · 

4. Commanding Generals of United states Army Commands are authorized 

to providn ma::lrrl;e?lQnce for Department of State cryptographic equipment at 

Foreign Service posts whenever such service is requested and can conveniently bo per!'ormed. The arrangements which havo been mde with the 

Department of State are for the purpose of mutual assistance, and the 

development of methods most efficient and economical to the Government. 

It is urged that the mutual assistance aspeat be emphasized in connection 

with this procedure. · 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARM!'1 

E~~ Major General 

The Adjutant General 

COPIES FURNISHED: 

Chief, Arrrzy- Security Agency (Attn: CSGAS-82) 

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