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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD: 

At 1000 hours, 16 Deceniber 1954, Mr. Howard A. Bond and Captain 

I. T. McDonald, USAF, both of the National Security .Agency, attended 

a briefing, as invited observers, in the G-2 War Room (Pentagon - 2C468) on the subject of Soviet electronics. 

Mr. Douglas B. Cruikshank (G-2) was the moderator of the program. 

The speakers were: 

Mr. Karl Gerhard (Signal Corps Intelligence .Agency) 

on the state of electronics developments, uses, and training 

in the USSR; 

Lt. Colonel H. Johnston, USAF (Air Technical Intelligence 

Center) - on the known data on Soviet Electon:IJ:! eqUipment, esp. 

radar; 

Lt. Colonel John Libbert, US.AF (Directorate of Intelligence) - on the ELINT intercept coverage, fixed and mobile; locations of 

stations; areas of airbourne intercept; number and types of 

aircraft involved; 

Mr. F. Schaller (Arnzy'-Navy Electronic Evaluation Group) - on frequency spectrum usage by the Soviets. 

Those present at the briefing numbered about twenty-eight and 

included the following: 

Mr. Donald A. Quarles, Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

Research and Development. 

Mr. C. s. Weaver, Starr Assistant to Assistant Secretary 

of Defense for R/D. 

Mr. M. D. Post, Staff Assistant to Assistant Secretary of 

of De£ense for R/D. 

Dr. Suits, Chairman of the Technical Advisory Panel of the 

Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for R/D, 

and some members of Dr. Sui ts' Panel. 

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Some serious concern '~s shown, J.E.rticuJ.arly by Dr. Suits, over the 

increasing annual output of graduate engineers in Russia, and the de-

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opv~ously avoided by all present. 

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