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60. (U) Ibid., 144.
61. (TS//SI) ThompsonDn~Gerhard,103;
Michel, 114.
62. (U) Michel, 118.
63. (TS//SI) Thompson, SIGINT Support to-Air
Operations in Southeast Asia, 1965-1972,57.
64. (U) Michel, 128.
65. (U) Ibid., 170; Futrell, 12, 75.
66. (S//SI) John Clegg, "Ironhorse: A Tactical
SIGINT System," Cryptolog Special Issue - Vietnam,
October 1975, 24.
67. (TS/fSI) Pierson, 30.
68. (S/fSI) DIRNSA to PACAF, "Ironhorse,"
R8/43/67, 150119ZAprilI967, CCH Series XII.NN.VI.
69. (8//81) Clegg, 26.
70. (TS/fSI) Pierson, 31.
71. ('fS//SI) Ibid., 40.
72. (TSl/SI) Ibid., 80.
73. ('fS//SI) Thompson, SIGINT Support to Air
Operations in SEA, 1965-1972, 8.
74. (8//81) 2/0/VCA/R54-68, 212156Z1968.
75. (TSi/SI) SIGINT Information on CHICOM
Forces in North Vietnam, 1969; NCA# 45222. The
report did not give a forces figure. For a full accounting
of Chinese forces, see "The Vietnam War, 1964­
1968; A Chinese Perspective," Xiaoming Zhang, The
Journal of Military History, Vol. 60, No.4, (Oct
1996): 731-62.
76. (U) Qiang Zhai, "Beijing and the Vietnam
Conflict 1964-1965: New Chinese Evidence"
(Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center), 237.
77. (U) Michel, 189.
78. (S//SI) 2/0;VCK-E/RI-70, 022140Z January
1970.
79. (S//SI) Ibid.
80. (S//SI) 2/0;VCA/RI-67.
81. (8//81) 2/0;VCK-E/RI-70.
82. (8//S1) 2/0~ IRI-66,071600Z
February 1966.
83. (S/iSI) 2/H3/VCA/R06-66, 061600Z January
1966.
84. (S//SI) 2/K~ !R1-69, 19 April 1969.
85. (S//SI) Ibid.
86. (8//SI) Ibid.
87. (S//81) Ibid; 2/0;VCK-E/R41-67, 062003Z
August 1967.
88. (8//81) 2/0;VCK-E/R4-68, 121455Z March
1968.
89. (8//8I) 2/0~ ~1-69.
90. (U) Stuart I. Rochester, and Frederick Kiley,
Honor Bound: The History ofAmerican Prisoners of
War in Southeast Asia, 1961-73 (Washington, D.C.:
Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense,
1998};506; This history is probably the most comprehensive
record available of the POW experience, at
least from the perspective of the POWs themselves.
91. (U) Ibid., 490~491.
92. (U) Ibid., 240,638; See also Susan Katz
Keating, Prisoners ofHope: Exploiting the POW/MiA
Myth in America (New York: Random House, 1994),
125.!P.L.86-36
93. (U) Rochester and Kiley,502.
94. (8//8I) Lawrence J. Polkalba, "Son Tay Raid:
Intelligence Capabilities/Utilization Analysis," Master
of Science in Strategic Intelligence Thesis, August
1970,9, CCH Series XII.~
95. (s//al) Lt. Col.L_'""'"':-""""i-~__I"project
Adrenalin. A Journal of Cryptologic Support to the
U.S. Effort to Extract American prisoners of War from
North Vietnam," 7 December 1970; DIRNSA MSG,
262245Z August 1970, 082'32/26; CCH Series VIII,
Box 21, "Son Tay Prison Raid."
96. {'f&H8t) Johnson/578.
97. (SffSI)1 I IM/R:"HoldAction
on Drawdown of USN32 Resources,"·. 29 October
1970.
98. (anaI) I r 2/G3/VCJ/T363-70,
232348Z October 1970.
99. (S//SI) DIRNSA 190923Z November 1970,
11015/19; DIRNSA MSG, "Special Collection and
Reporting Emphasis," 191757Z November 1970,
07042/19, CCH series VII, Box 21.
100. (S//SI)/Commander JCS Joint Contingency
Task Group "Report on The Son Tay Prisoner of War
Rescue Operation," Part 1, 1971, 45, 69, CCH Series
VIII, Box 21.
101..(S//5e Ibid., 69.
102. (TS//SI) Ibid., 68.
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