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TO DATE: 14 December 54 

:FROM IG 

SUBJECT: Co111enta on Mr. Friedllla.n' s memo ot 3 l'ov. 54 on "Compromises of 

COMIIT Due to Ineftective COMSEC". 

- l.. You ask it I ha.Te any cOlllllents on this e1 tlier as a resul.t ot my trip 

or otherwise. As a resul.t ot my trip I can say categorically, in answer to 

J'riedmn's 6f(l.), that the IGs of the Services, including those of the cryptologic agencies, have no effect on~ operations except impedance. There · are two reasons tor this: 

a. They know nothing about the operational and technical end, and 

hence concentrate their whole attention on Service directives aa 

distinguished from Jl8A directives. Their principal interests are 

the mess, cleanliness, utilization ot the library, the accuracy of 

supply accounting, the Trol:p Information Program, all that. This, 

not COMDl'l' operational ef'f'ectiveness, is what the CO &Dd his 

people get marked and promoted on. 

b. They operate under the existing Service ph1losoplJ¥ of the IG as an 

ott1.c1al whose responsibility totally ends when he bas found deviations from the letter ot the rules, enforced "rectification", and 

clamped down on the deviators. (Typical. example: one station bad 

slightly al.tered a receiver, under EA-62 guid&Dce, to m.ke it 

function better with certain of our special R/.P equipment. A 

Service IG made them change it back. Don't ask me bow he knew. 

lie probably made the CO fill out a questionnaire including something like the follow1ng. "List any equipments in your comnand in 

which non-standard alterations have been made". And the CO foolishly did so. ) · 

ID answer to lriedan. 1 11 6t(2), l.et us,, by all meana, for reasons above and 

others which follow be1ov, retrain rigidly and -rorever from taking any such 

steps. Some further thoughts follow. 

2. I see in Friedman'• memo. such phrases a• ".An OIC ot COMSEC functions--" 

(referring to some officer attached to a COMDl'l unit), "--to assure that CCHmC 

peopJ.e are consciously aware--" (again re:terring to peopl.e in a COMilfl' outfit), "In regard to inspections o:t COMSEC activities--" (by context obviously referring to checks of compliance w1 th COMSEC rul.es w1 thin COMIIT activities). I 

wonder whether we are not a little contused, all the ~ up and down the line'l 

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There are OICs of COMSEC activities in RBA-40; there is a COMSEC activity at 

Vint Hill, another at Kelly AFB; there are various COMSEC activities run by 

the Services, vhich monitor our own connDJn1cations and advise the coDIDB.nd.ers 

they serve accordingly; every one of the Services' crypto-repai:r facilities 

performs COMSEC functions. But nowhere else in the Services are there any 

COMSEC functions, or COMSEC activities, or OICa thereof; there are only 

conmunications activities, ~ ot whose duty is to use properly the devices and 

rules of COMSEC as one ot the tool.a with which they conmunicate. A cryptocenter boss isn't the90IC ot a "COMSEC activity" any more than a destroyer 

navigator is an ephemerist, or a cruiser gunnery officer the chief of an ordnance out:f'it. I impl.ied above that "we" might be contused, and I said "we" 

advisedly, not meaning Friedman as an illdividual.. Our confusion, I bel.ieve, 

is apparent in the pl.ace that we give BSA-40 in the crypto-aecurity of COMD'T 

co:nmunications. I suggest that the crypto security of COMIBT coDIDU!lications 

is, under the Director, Enderlin's business, and the business of the cos of the 

various stations, assisted by their ccmununj cators; and that 40 should have 

exactly the same pl.ace in this that he bas in the connmm1 cations of CIBCPAC 

w1 th his ships, CG 7th Army w1 th his tanks, and SAC with his B47s, that is, a 

provider of means and-an expert advisor (and one that Enderlin is J.ucky to 

have so convenient, but who is, neverthel.esa, in the business on call. ~ 

Enderlin, not otherwise). . - -

3. Bow getting back to the IG phil.osoplzy', who should inspect to see 

whether a certain RSA Branch is keeping its WD8o cards up to date? Wl\Y the 

Division Chief', the Office Cbief', the appropriate Deputy Director, and the 

Director, all. assisted by PERS, o'l course! Who should inspect the Branch's 

supply records? The same J.ine officials, assisted by BSA-J. 7. Who its security? 91e same, with Reynol.ds 's boys as the experts this time. Who should 

inspect a station's training in and compl.iance with COMSEC rules? ihe same 

peopl.e who should inspect its comnnications; viz, the 00, his co, his co, 

and :naybe DIRISA, each and every one assisted by his expert oothe sfmject, 

his Ccmmunicator. What place bas the IG in this? A good question, deserving 

a paragraph of its own. 

4. A primary duty of' Comna.nd is inspection, and Staff' is Command's 

resource tor the purpose; in f'act I mcy- sq that inspection, determining the 

extent to which pl.ans and pol.icies and orders are being executed, is Staff's 

"other" big job, the first being,, of course, to formul.ate the pl.ans, pol.icies, 

and orders. Certainly it follows that each el.emen.t ot Statt should inspect 

the detail.a in which it is the expert, and the Staff' is actually so charged 

in all of the manuals, industrial as well. as m:LJ.itary. What, then, is J.ett 

for an entity whose stated duty is inspection and nothing ~ inspection? 

There are only two things to be inspected - - orders and performance. Since 

performance is al.ready taken care of, the only thing l.ef't for an excl.usive 

inspecting entity to inspect is orders; this means that the IG's real duty 

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is to inspect Statf', to inspect plans and policies, to inspect the quality of 

direction from the top. He is a device for se1f-inspection. Thia bas been 

lost sight of in the Services, the evolution of the present Service IGbeing, 

I suppose, something like this: 

a. "The Chief', PERS, is 'responsible' for the administration of 

personne1." (This is probably to be found either in the organization manual or in the un¢tten, unconscious premises of' 

every coDl!!and on earth. And it is not true, and ca.miot, by the 

nature of Sta.ff, ever be true.) 

b. (With the premise of a., above). "An official cannot effectively 

inspect that for which he is responsible. One cannot be trusted 

to inspect himself'." (If you will change this to read " 

for which he is 1mnediate1y responsible 11 I might bu3"'1t;-

w1 th reservations; but not hooked up to -that false premise. ) 

c. "Ergo the Chief, PERS, cannot inspect the administration of personnel". (Then, since one of his primary jobs is 1nspect16n, 

what does he inspect - - the preservation o:f' archives?) 

d. "Therefore we have to bave something called an Inspector to 

inspect with." (And once we have him, everything bearing the 

label "inspection" gets automatically shunted to him, the way 

I once saw a despatch about a new air-compressor routed to the 

Station's "Air Officer".) -

The IG in the Services bas thus become the only Sta1'f man who inspects, or, 

at best, the man under whom the other Staff' people go through a sort of forJD&lized, periodical walk-through of what should be tully half of their own jobs. 

5. I will., of course, if' ordered, cease inspecting orders and undertake 

the inspection of performance. But in that case I shall request that I be provided with the toliOWing additional force: 

a. llalf of the BSA Staff. 

b. About ten carefully se1ected high-graders from PROD. 

c. Ditto from COMSEC. 

d. D1 tto :f'rom COM. 

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