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After the end of World War II, all the Western allies began a rapid drawdown of military forces, including those of signals intelligence.At the time, the US still had a COMINT organization split between the Army and Navy. [1]
The birth of signals intelligence in a modern sense dates to the Russo-Japanese War. As the Russian fleet prepared for conflict with Japan in 1904, the British ship HMS Diana stationed in the Suez canal was able to intercept Russian naval wireless signals being sent out for the mobilization of the fleet, for the first time in history.
The United States Army Security Agency (ASA) was the United States Army's signals intelligence branch from 1945 to 1977. [1] The Latin motto of the Army Security Agency was Semper Vigilis (Vigilant Always), which echoes the declaration, often mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson, that "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." [2] [3]
Russia had operated large SIGINT stations in Cuba and Vietnam until 2001, [11] but the chief of the General Staff, Anatoly Kvashnin, while the station in Lourdes, Cuba had been vital during the cold war "Now, the military-political situation has changed and there has been a qualitative leap in military equipment. With that money we can buy and ...
During World War II and the early years of the Cold War, the Venona project was a source of information on Soviet intelligence-gathering directed at the Western military powers. Although unknown to the public, and even to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman , these programs were of importance concerning crucial events of the ...
The birth of signals intelligence in a modern sense dates from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. As the Russian fleet prepared for conflict with Japan in 1904, the British ship HMS Diana stationed in the Suez Canal intercepted Russian naval wireless signals being sent out for the mobilization of the fleet, for the first time in history.
The documents released in 2017 included details on the FBI and CIA investigations into Lee Harvey Oswald, the Marine veteran identified as Kennedy's assassin, and information on covert Cold War ...
As cold war tensions rose and the Americans bolstered their intelligence apparatus, the Army reactivated the 3191st Signal Service Detachment in mid-1951 at Fort Devens, redesignating the unit the 358th Communications Reconnaissance Company. The 358th would fall under the 313th (as A Company) in 1955 before being deactivated again in late-1957.