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Utility / For your SIGINT Library
« on: November 11, 2019, 2301 UTC »
These pdfs should be in any ute radio enthusiast library.
The War Secrets In The Ether series takes us from the beginning of the (radio) art prior to WW1 to shortly after WW2 from a German perspective.
An interesting thing about War Secrets In The Ether is the US Gov bought copyright to the work from the author (a top ranking German SIGINT officer) and publisher prior to publication because in it the author revealed how they had broken several allied codes, including some the Russians were still using.
So, to keep the Russians from knowing their systems had been/still were compromised, the US Gov paid off Herr Flicke and it wasn't until decades later that a sanitised version was released by NSA to select researchers, long after these systems had been abandoned by the Russians. Today you can dl copies right from NSA archives;
War Secrets In The Ether I and II
https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/friedman-documents/reports-research/FOLDER_264/41761019080017.pdf
War Secrets In The Ether III
https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/friedman-documents/publications/FOLDER_265/41760949080010.pdf
Before Snowden, even before Bamford, and raising as much or more government concern, there was an American who wrote about early American SIGINT efforts from first hand experience;
https://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2014/06/American-Black-Chamber_II_watermark.pdf
Herbert Yardley and his SIGINT operation was terminated by US gov prior to WW2 because the gov had no money and "gentlemen do not read each others mail" .
They then scrambled to replace him with William Friedman, a fairly worthy successor, when WW2 showed up;
https://archive.org/details/nsa-friedman
This work covers the birth of NSA, more or less SIGINT from the American perspective from WW2 to the 80s;
https://issuu.com/chulavistaair/docs/0140067485-the-puzzle-palace-by-james-bamford
The Puzzle Palace, authored by James Bamford, a USN vet, stirred up a lot of stuff as you can tell from this pdf regarding congressional hearings;
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00148R000100330001-9.pdf
And others by Bamford on more current capabilities;
https://archive.org/details/bodyofsecretsana00bamf
http://www.bookarmor.com/_files/TSF.pdf
This pdf describes Soviet SIGINT efforts to the time of glasnost and perestroikii;
http://bellschool.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/publications/attachments/2016-03/047_soviet_signals_intelligence_sigint_canberra_papers_on_strategy_and_defence_desmond_ball_159p_0731505034.pdf
This pdf describes current Japanese SIGINT infrastructure;
http://nautilus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Japan-SIGINT-Ground-Stations-full-3-August-final.pdf
Another excellent work by Desmond Ball.
The Tools of Owatatsumi;
Japan’s Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Capabilities
https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p309261/pdf/book.pdf
If you use a pc or just about any computing device, much less cheap sdrs that more or less take the place of what used to be entire buildings filled with racks of very expensive receivers, recording devices, and computers, you might thank US Gov and NSA for the neat and cheap gear because of the fortune invested in computing by NSA, but perhaps not for the spying they do on us sans warrant.
The War Secrets In The Ether series takes us from the beginning of the (radio) art prior to WW1 to shortly after WW2 from a German perspective.
An interesting thing about War Secrets In The Ether is the US Gov bought copyright to the work from the author (a top ranking German SIGINT officer) and publisher prior to publication because in it the author revealed how they had broken several allied codes, including some the Russians were still using.
So, to keep the Russians from knowing their systems had been/still were compromised, the US Gov paid off Herr Flicke and it wasn't until decades later that a sanitised version was released by NSA to select researchers, long after these systems had been abandoned by the Russians. Today you can dl copies right from NSA archives;
War Secrets In The Ether I and II
https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/friedman-documents/reports-research/FOLDER_264/41761019080017.pdf
War Secrets In The Ether III
https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/friedman-documents/publications/FOLDER_265/41760949080010.pdf
Before Snowden, even before Bamford, and raising as much or more government concern, there was an American who wrote about early American SIGINT efforts from first hand experience;
https://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2014/06/American-Black-Chamber_II_watermark.pdf
Herbert Yardley and his SIGINT operation was terminated by US gov prior to WW2 because the gov had no money and "gentlemen do not read each others mail" .
They then scrambled to replace him with William Friedman, a fairly worthy successor, when WW2 showed up;
https://archive.org/details/nsa-friedman
This work covers the birth of NSA, more or less SIGINT from the American perspective from WW2 to the 80s;
https://issuu.com/chulavistaair/docs/0140067485-the-puzzle-palace-by-james-bamford
The Puzzle Palace, authored by James Bamford, a USN vet, stirred up a lot of stuff as you can tell from this pdf regarding congressional hearings;
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00148R000100330001-9.pdf
And others by Bamford on more current capabilities;
https://archive.org/details/bodyofsecretsana00bamf
http://www.bookarmor.com/_files/TSF.pdf
This pdf describes Soviet SIGINT efforts to the time of glasnost and perestroikii;
http://bellschool.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/publications/attachments/2016-03/047_soviet_signals_intelligence_sigint_canberra_papers_on_strategy_and_defence_desmond_ball_159p_0731505034.pdf
This pdf describes current Japanese SIGINT infrastructure;
http://nautilus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Japan-SIGINT-Ground-Stations-full-3-August-final.pdf
Another excellent work by Desmond Ball.
The Tools of Owatatsumi;
Japan’s Ocean Surveillance and Coastal Defence Capabilities
https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p309261/pdf/book.pdf
If you use a pc or just about any computing device, much less cheap sdrs that more or less take the place of what used to be entire buildings filled with racks of very expensive receivers, recording devices, and computers, you might thank US Gov and NSA for the neat and cheap gear because of the fortune invested in computing by NSA, but perhaps not for the spying they do on us sans warrant.
