American Cryptology during the Cold War - The Black Vault
American Cryptology during the Cold War - The Black Vault
American Cryptology during the Cold War - The Black Vault
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Ib) (3) -P.L. 86-36<br />
Ib) (3) -50 USC 403<br />
Ib) (3) -18 USC 798<br />
done <strong>during</strong> World <strong>War</strong> II, requested CO~IINT information from both Communist and<br />
Nationalist communications.<br />
ASA mounted a small effortag~instboth <strong>the</strong> Nationalists and Communists.0<br />
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IASA could still report that <strong>the</strong> two sides were far apart,\ancl it<br />
was obvious from <strong>the</strong> COMINT traffic that <strong>the</strong>y were determined to settle <strong>the</strong>ir differences<br />
on <strong>the</strong> battlefield. <strong>The</strong> Marshall mission was withdrawn in 1946, and in October 01\1949<br />
Mao triumphed.<br />
Following <strong>the</strong> withdrawal of :he Marshall mission, <strong>the</strong> COMINT mission against China<br />
suffered, as ASA employed all available resources against <strong>the</strong> So7t tarlret.1\,\<br />
security problems.28<br />
IASA kp.nt only a small section against Chinese civil communications<br />
I Collection resources were concentrated a~<br />
When <strong>American</strong> and South Korean troops crossed <strong>the</strong> 38th Parallel, <strong>the</strong> Chinese had<br />
already decided to intervene in North Korea. <strong>The</strong> decision was taken at a meeting in<br />
Beijing from 3 to 7 October 1950. On <strong>the</strong> first day of <strong>the</strong> conference, Chinese foreign<br />
minister Chou En-Lai called Indian ambassador Panikkar to tellhim of<strong>the</strong> decision, and<br />
Panikkar relayed this news to <strong>the</strong> West. But Indians were regarded as pathologically leftleaning,<br />
and Panikkar's communique was disbelieved. Chou's warning was followed up by<br />
Chinese radio broadcasts, but <strong>the</strong>se, too, were disregarded. 29<br />
Historian Clay Blair asserts that "when MacArthur returned to Tokyo from Wake<br />
Island [in mid-October] he had no inkling of<strong>the</strong> CCF armies ga<strong>the</strong>ring in North Korea." so<br />
This was wrong. AFSA had clear and convincing evidence of <strong>the</strong> massing of Chinese<br />
troops north of <strong>the</strong> Yalu and had published it in product reports available to <strong>the</strong> JCS, <strong>the</strong><br />
White House, and to MacArthur. As early as July, AFSAbegan noting references in<br />
Chinese civil communications to army units moving north.• Rail hubs in central China<br />
were jammed with soldiers on <strong>the</strong>ir way to Manchuria.• By September AFSA had<br />
identified six of <strong>the</strong> nine field armies that were later involved in <strong>the</strong> fighting in North<br />
Korea and had located <strong>the</strong>m in Manchuria, near <strong>the</strong> Korean border. Ferries at Anshan (on<br />
<strong>the</strong> Yalu River) were being reserved for military use. Maps of Korea were being ordered in<br />
large quantities. On 7 November, in voice communications intercepted and published by<br />
<strong>the</strong> COMINT communityI<br />
fstated, "We are already at war<br />
here."S!<br />
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