[R-390] Interesting Link Vietnam NSA released report

[mikea]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:04:05PM -0500, Dave or Debbie Metz wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have been reading a bit of this 
> link  http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/spartans/index.html
> 
> 
> This is a big big File  at 35 meg. However, it's a declassified NSA 
> document that talks about 390's in Rc130 aircraft, shows what I think 
> might be Collins equipment on page 152 or this document.  It's too 
> big to read in an evening at 500 pages, but it talks about the tonkin 
> gulf failures and Tet and the failures of SIGNET.
> 
> It's probably not a read for everyone, but I am sure there are some 
> electronic spooks out there who might not know this was floating 
> around out there

Wow! I hadn't expected to see _that_ out in the open, even with the
huge redactions. There were enough SIGINT failures, and enough 
failures in interpretation -- including the Tonkin Gulf Incident --
to be really disheartening. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
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