[ARC5] Hmmm...OT....AN/GRC-109 vs RS-6

[Tim]

Hi Guys - One of my favorite subjects.....(still OT, sorry!)
I am not sure that the CIA "bought" these sets, but they deployed RS-6's
with agent teams.  Apparently lots of them. Here is one of many
declassified (FOIA) CIA documents detailing their inclusion in cache
packages in Austria (circa 1961) along with an RS-1 set, GN-58 etc..  See
www.foia.cia.gov/sites/ as an example.
(once in that website, you need to do a search on *EUCA61-966 0162* - it's
a pdf released by the CIA.)  It details the cache contents, by each
component serial number, including one-time pads etc.  It's all there.
(This particular commo cache was found in Austria and then sold on E Bay if
you can believe that!)

They were staged for use by "stay behind" citizens in the event of a Soviet
assault into Austria at the time.  The RS-6's were also deployed inside the
Soviet Union for partisan agent use.  The CIA ran a school in Germany (and
probably other places) to teach foreign national agents CW, RS-1 and RS-6
radio operation, crypto and other agent stuff..
Breck's 8th AF reference is solid regarding their use in strategic bombers,
presumably as a "come get us" radio. They've been around.....
73, Tim
N6CC



On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:43 PM, WA5CAB--- via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> I won't go on record as saying that the CIA didn't buy or use the RS-6.
> But I have proof in the form of a copy of an 8th AF document on cold
> weather
> survival that USAF did (courtesy of COL B Smith).  Each B-47, RB-47, B-52
> and
> RB-52 carried one of them.  KC-97's and KC-135's did not.  The document is
> dated 15 September 1959.
>
> I also have the manuals on the RS-6 and the RS-6A.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
>
> In a message dated 11/23/2015 14:22:50 PM Central Standard Time,
> kgordon2006 at frontier.com writes:
> > Well, it looks as though I made yet another "ass-u-me" error. From my
> > reading various articles from various places, I thought it was clear (at
> > least to
> > me) that the AN/GRC-109 was simply a military-nomenclatured version of
> > the CIA's RS-6.
> >
> > But it isn't: it is a militarized version of the RS-1.
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