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DATE: 14 July 1954 

:- ,:_,¥AAM'.;:'·:. Sydney B. Smith 

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. ':·"~.P,.~JE<:;T: Quotation from Newsweek, June 21, 1954 

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. J· · ·:~ '!our memorandum of 18 June asks whether the following 

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quotation from Newsweek 

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"DEFENSE PIPELINE 

Nationa,l Security Agency -- Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the 

Joint 'Cbi~fs of S'4ff, has just completed elal:orate precautions to keep 

posted on latest world developments at all hours. He lives right on 

the grounqs of NSA, the top-secret military communications intelligence 

agency,' and has· ordered vital messages delivered to his home during the 

night and over al1 week ends and holidays. 11 

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-; -.' '' · . ·;' The, pertinent prov.i.sion of 18 USC 798 reads: "Whoever Jmowingly and willfully 

"' ·;.~publishes**** ts;> the detriment of the U. s., any classified information  

.:C.on¢eming the communication intel.ligence activities of the U. s. ** ** shall be 

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lfThe term 1 classified information' ~eans information **** specifically 

designated by au. s. government agency for a limited or restricted 

dissemination or distribution." 

11The term 1 communication intelllgencet means all procedures and methods 

used in the interception of communications and the obtaining or information from such communications by other than the intended recipients. 11 

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, : . ·rn the light of the above provisions, it would be necessary to prove inter alia 

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;. toverriment agency for l1mi teq or restricted dissemination" and that the information 

.. :related to "procedures and methods used in the interception of communtcations. 11 I _ believe '!18 wo~d have difficulty in establishing either one of these points. i . - ~ 

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NEWSWEEK, June 21, 1954 

Extracted from the article 11The Periscope" page 17. 

"DEFENSE PIPELINE 

National Security Agency -- Admiral Arthur W. Radt'ord, chairman 

of the Joint Chiefs of Sta.ff, has just completed elaborate precautions to keep posted on latest world developments at all' 

hours. He lives right on the grounds of NSA, the top-secret 

military communications intelligence agency, and has ordered 

vital messages delivered to his home during the night and over 

all week ends and holidays." 
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The pinetree stations wre built joint]1' b7 Canada and the United ',"~tatea during the last tour J'Nl"'B• Persomel ot the United States 

Air Force aan those stations 11h1ch,, llhila the7 are 1n Canada, eerve 

pr!mriq to protect potential targets in the United states. 

!he etationa whose locations were diaoloaed by" the Rounde1 are believed to be .marmed aolel.1' 111' the RCA!'. 

1b.. Baning As: (Waahington. D. c.)' Bight Final. Edition, 13 April 54, l5iP .l-19,, Co1um 2 

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l&K Oii LOOA'f IOB or 9 RADAR B'l'A'llOIS D CAIJADA ADMITTED 

B7 Gerald Waring, Special Correspondent of The Star 

O'rl'AW.t. Ontario. .lprll 13-The Canadlan dllten• department took belated action todq to protect the aecrec7 of locations ot Tltal radar etationa, but .tor nine atationa the action wa useless. 

Deteue 18.niater Brooke Cl.ax.tan admitted 1n Parliuent 19aterda7 

that the lo781 Canadian Jir Force upz1De1 the Boundel• had inadwrtentl,J' publimed the locations ot nine of the top aecret radar 

installation•• 

These stations tom part ot the "pj.Detree chain" which is the prla'l:'T radar pi-oteotion for J18D7 laatem Canadian and Armtrican cities 

and other potential. targets agd.nat aneak attacks b7 Rwss1an bombers. 

Publicaticm of routine I.CAP' personnel transfers diacloaed information ot a kind which Kr. Claxton had reta.aed to tell Parliament 

laat 79ar on eecurit7 grounds. 

Transter Listed. 

The Karch issue carried this note under the "personnel tranltera1" 

•wt.rrant Otticer Second Class C. :S. Jror1n-radar station Lac St. 

Denis to radar atation Mont Apica. 11 

Postings listed 1n another receJ:t. issue disclosed the locations 

et ae't1!1D more atationa. 

'l'he maguina ha• unrestricted cil'culation1 and complinent817 copies 

&1!'e aent to the air attaches ot foreign DIJ.asions here, presumabl.7 

1nclud1ng thoae ot Oonmunist countries. 

h :retuahJ& intCl?'lll&tion on radar locations to m.embers ot Parllamnt last 19ar. Kr. Clax.tOD •aid that "one ot the things first 1n 

importance tor ettectin boming ia to be able to locate and 1mow 

eveeytbing possible about the ••.Ill''• radar detenses." 

UaetW. IDowledge. 

With such knowledge, he upla1ned1 •attacking bOlllbers can take the 

line ot approach 'lbere radar coyerage is least ettectin, or tr;r 

to put them. out ot action bJ' jannlng or b7 bombing." 

Yesterday 1 while not condoning the leak in the RCAP .mgasine, he 

pointed oflt that "the nr,y u.ture ot radar stations prevents their being ae01'8t"-.tor one thing,, because "the7 are usual.17 

erected on the tops ot hills." 

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