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

[Tim]

This might be a more direct URL:
http://www.foia.cia.gov/search/site/EUCA61-966%200162
Tim

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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> 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
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>> 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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