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include interviews with the escaped members of
the DGTS who were queried on the effectiveness
of destruction procedures at the vanous
Vietnamese sites. Although the amount of lost
material and equipment was staggering, the
numerous paper and machine COMSEC systems
NSA had provided the South Vietnamese were
dated and constituted only a negligible technological
and cryptographic compromise."
ES//SI) The work of producing an "official"
history of SIGINT in the war had already collapsed.
Ajoint effort at a cryptologic communitywide
history of the Indochina war, which had
started back in 1967, had come to an abrupt end
by 1971. The original goal that the members had
envisioned was for a multivolume effort by NSA
and the SCEs, documenting various phases and
significant incidents of the war. But it had run
aground during the withdrawal in 1971-2. 15 The
last NSA-published history, SIGINT Support to
the Air War, was published in February 1972.
Other volumes, some in draft form, were stopped.
The Army Security Agency's official history never
got beyond a draft stage. The Air Force Security
"----------------------... Service produced a few special histories on the
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