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(5) Phuc Yen ~irfie"t 7 August 1964, with thirty-Six MiG-15/17 ~itcraft: newly<br />

arrived ftom the PRe<br />

communications. Meanwhile, at NSA<br />

Headquarters, the section <strong>in</strong> the Office of<br />

Southeast Asia that performed analysis and<br />

report<strong>in</strong>g of Vietnamese air force communications<br />

was blended <strong>in</strong> with the operations<br />

L- ...... In<br />

the summer of 1965, the air<br />

force began to transfer its<br />

mission to the newly established ASA <strong>in</strong>tercept<br />

facility at Udorn. This would be f<strong>in</strong>ished by 19§7.<br />

(is//SI)<br />

EO 1.4. (c)<br />

(s/;'sn Ground-based <strong>in</strong>tercept of the DRV's<br />

air defense communications was done by<br />

Detachment 2 of the 6925th Security Group at<br />

Monkey Mounta<strong>in</strong> near Danang. Danang collected<br />

North Vietnamese HF manual morse air<br />

defense, civil air, military air, and navigational<br />

Icommunications"<br />

the air war began <strong>in</strong> earnest <strong>in</strong> spr<strong>in</strong>g 1965,<br />

Danang would become the pr<strong>in</strong>cipal center for<br />

the ground collection of Hanoi's air and air<br />

defense communications. A small detachment of<br />

air force <strong>in</strong>tercept operators worked at a nearby<br />

site at Son Tra on the same Monkey Mounta<strong>in</strong>.<br />

I<br />

L...- ~--...JIBy the end of 1964,<br />

both the ASA

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