[GreenKeys] Slightly OT - Churchill War Room

[Steve Garrison]

Duncan may have, but I know I gottbd opportunity to lay hands on KL-7s while a USAF TTY repairman during the late 60's.  Since the KL-7 was mostly mechanical it came under the TTY umbrella and not the crypto guys. The crypto guys handled the all electronic crypto gear.

Steve G./N4TTY
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> On Mar 31, 2019, at 2:44 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> A fairly obscure and now expensive journal is Cryptologia.  You might be
> able to find (try inter-library loan) the article "The SIGCUM Story:
> Cryptographic Failure, Cryptologic Success" in the October 1997 issue
> of Cryptologia, page 289.  Another article "Automatic Communications
> With the SIGABA and the M-294" by Louis Kruh, October 1985, p. 311.
> 
> I once phoned NSA and asked to speak to a historian, and was connected
> to Robert Hanyok.  I suggested they ought to do a publication on the
> role of Teletype Corp. in the crypto business.  The reply I got was
> 
> "If you submit a FOIA request to the NSA for material concerning
> the Teletype Corporation, or KL-47, or ADONIS, you might get something. No
> guarantee, of course. But the NSA search would be rather focused and the
> records requested would be easily identified and reachable. That is the best I can come up with."
> 
> This was in 2007 and I've never done anything about it.
> 
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