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THE 1950s: FIGHTING THE
ELECTRONIC WAR
Chapter 6: 'Elint' and the Soviet Nuclear
Target
1 JIC (47) 65 (0), 'Summary of Principal
External Factors Affecting Commonwealth
Security', 29.10.47, LlWS/1I986, JOLR.
2 Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb, pp.215-19.
3 The best account of this is offered in
Goodman, Spying on the Nuclear Bear,
pp.36-56.
4 Ibid.
5 JIC (48) (0) (second revised draft), 'Sigint
intelligence requirements', 11.05.48,
LlWS/1l96, IOLR.
6 Ibid.
7 Stripp, Code-Breaker in the Far East, pp.50-
60; Jones, Reflections, pp.I4-16.
8 Aid, 'The Russian Target', p.l3
9 Confidential Annex, 'Sigint Intelligence
Requirements - 1948', 02.48, CAB 159/3.
10 SEAC Noise Investigation Bureau report
for May 1945, WO 203/4089.
11 R.V. Jones, Most Secret War, p.92.
12 Bonsall, 'Bletchley Park and the RAF Y
Service'.
13 Johnson, American Cryptology, VoU,
p.l0.
14 Hughes to Hodges (Asst CoAS A-2),
26.02.45, File 1945, Box 77, Vandenberg
Papers, LC; Condensed Analysis of the Ninth
Air Force in the European Theatre of
Operations, 1984, 120, CAFH.
15 Captain Wenger, US Navy Coordinator of
Joint Operations, to Colonel R.P. Klocko,
USAF, CJO 0001922, 12.03.48, memo:
'British Proposal for Liaison on "Noise
Investigation" " USAF D of I records, File
2-1100/2-1199, Box 40, RG 341, NARA.
16 As a quid pro quo Jones was made scientific
adviser to GCHQ with a deputy based
permanently at Cheltenham. This eventually
blossomed into the post of GCHQ
Chief Scientist, the first incumbent being
the talented Gerald Touch, a lifelong friend
of Jones. Jones, Reflections 011 Intelligence,
pp.15-17.
17 McMurtie (JSM), to Moore (Pentagon),
20.11.48, File 2-8300-2-8399, USAF D of
I records, RG 341, NARA.
18 Aid, Secret Sentry, pp.56-7.
19 Memo for D of I and CNt 17.11.48,
Microfilm Reel 1031, CAFH.
20 Addison (AOC 60 Grp) to Porter (DDS
BII), 25.03.46, AIR 40/2591.
21 It had previously been located at
Medmenham.
22 Mtg to discuss a paper on Tactical Sigint,
23.07.47, AIR 40/2591, TNA
23 Peter Long, In Support of So Many.
24 Air Technical Intelligence Study, 'Soviet
Electronic Countermeasures', 10.06.51,
20034, Box 149, USAF D of I records, RG
341, NARA; Air Technical Intelligence
Study, 'Soviet Air Communications',
12.07.51, 20032, ibid.
25 Sontag and Drew, Blind Man's Buff, pp.12-
23.
26 Oscar Martinez, The Account of the
Sinking of the USS Cochino', 08.49,
http://www.sid.hill.com/n tins/bbs-
034a.htm
27 Lederer, The Last Cruise, pp.78-9.
28 Sontag and Drew, Blind Man's Buff, pp.7-24.
29 Packard, Century, pp.195-7; Tamnes, High
North, p.77; Burrows, By Any Means
Necessary, pp.I08-9.
30 Bradley memos, 'Special Electronic
Airborne Search Operations', 05.05.50 and
22.07.50, and Truman minute 19.05.50,
HST microfilm, Pt.2, Reel 3, HUL.
31 Tamnes, High North, p.79; Riste, Norwegian
Intelligence, pp.62-3.
32 Tamnes, High North, pp.122-3.
33 Porter (DS) to RWE Watton, 27.02.46,
enclosing DD of Sigs (B), 'Tactical Signals
Intelligence in Peace and War', 22.02.46,
AIR 40/2591.
34 Addison (AOC 60 Grp) to Porter (DDS
BII), 25.03.46, ibid.
35 JIC (51) 96th mtg,(5), 'Inter Service
Scheme for the Training of Russian
Linguists for War', 14.09.51, CAB 159110.
36 William Trites and Forrest G. Hogg took
up equivalent roles in the UK. See
Tamnes, High North, pp.116-17; D of I
USAF to US Air Attache London, 'Liaison
with GCHQ', 26.10.52, 235700, Box 68,
D of I records, RG 341, NARA.
37 JIC 61111, 'Intelligence Estimate of
Technical Characteristics and Tactical
Employment of Soviet Electronic Devices',
18.06.52, JCS 1951-3 350.09 USSR (12-
19-49) Sec.l RG 218, NARA.
38 AFOIN-T to D of I USAF, 16.04.52,
223200, Box 64, USAF D of I records, RG
341, NARA.
39 Ibid.
40 Cook (USAF) to Lang (BJSM), 02.06.52,
2-23600, Box 65, ibid.
41 Eubank (COS) to Rowlands (MoS),
31.01.52, DEFE 111350; Eubank to DRPC,
31.01.52, ibid.
42 COS (52) 152nd mtg (1) Confidential
Annex, 04.11.52, ibid.