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(TS//Si) The axis of the American SIGINT<br />

effort <strong>in</strong> Southeast Asia had gravitated west to the<br />

7th Radio Research Field Station (7th RRFS) at<br />

Ramasun just south of the prov<strong>in</strong>cial capital of<br />

Udorn, Thailand. The 7th RRFS was the last<br />

major U.S. SIGINT site on the Southeast Asian<br />

landmass. There were two associated DJF stationsl<br />

'--<br />

.....1 Overall, American<br />

SIGINT assets devoted to Southeast Asian communications<br />

were decl<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g. Collection positions<br />

allocated to <strong>in</strong>tercept the communications <strong>in</strong> the<br />

region decl<strong>in</strong>ed; as measured as a percentage of<br />

the worldwide cryptologicprogram, they had<br />

dropped from 13 to 5 percent. The Southeast Asia<br />

analytic effort at NSA was "virtually elim<strong>in</strong>ated"<br />

as a result of economiesforced by cutbacks on the<br />

entire <strong>in</strong>telligence community that followed the<br />

cessation of the direct American military <strong>in</strong>volvement.""<br />

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1.4. (c)<br />

Page 422<br />

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1.4. (c)<br />

1.4. (d)

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