[R-390] R390A Classifcation results

[Barry Williams]

Gary,

Very interesting stuff!

I worked in, or around the Nuclear Surety Program in the 1970's and an 
E-4 and E-5. I was told that there were higher levels that I won't 
mention here. I was in a Pershing missile unit in Germany at that time. 
The targeting information was kept at the battery level, along with the 
code box that was heavily protected.

I later ran into the higher level issue when working as a Warrant Officer.

My understand was that this was not discussed at all. I only heard about 
it from people who were close friends, and only in brief mentions.



Barry


> My memory from nearly 40 years ago is predicably unreliable.  But as
> a former R brancher (CTR2, Hi  toJohn the M brancher) here is what I
> remember:
>
> I spent three years working with and around R390A's inside buildings inside
>  FRD-10  Circular Disposed Antenna Arrays.   Mostly doing narrow band and
> wideband
> High Frequency Direction Finding.   To go from E3 to E5 I had to study the
> pertinent
> manuals.  None of the ones about the receivers were stamped with any level
> of classification.   And none of the receivers had any either.  I'm sure
> though,
> that some of the equipment associated with the encrypted teletype circuits
> was classified
> An O brancher could tell us more.  I talked to a  T brancher this morning
> who worked with
> banks of R390/R390A's  in the 70's.   None of his equipment was classified.
>
> By the way, "Restricted" as a level of  classification was dropped sometime
> in the 50's.  Some countries
> still  use it as one of theirs.   U.S.  levels are "Confidential, Secret,
> and Top Secret".
> Contrary to some novel writers, there is no level above Top Secret.   There
> are some
> designations used to narrow the Need To Know and Access.  "Eyes Only" and
> "Cryptographic" come to mind.
>
> Gary Webb NI9V, CBET, Ex CTR2
>
>
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