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07-28-2009, 08:36 PM

This was just released, a partially declassified document. Regarding the historic USA/UK alliance -

ISCAP DIRECTS NSA TO RELEASE COMINT HISTORY
ISCAP = Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/

In 2005, the National Security Agency released a partially declassified (pdf) 1952 history of communications intelligence prior to Pearl Harbor with several passages censored. But this month, the NSA released the complete text (pdf, 25pp) of the document after the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) determined that there was no justification for continued classification of the withheld portions.

During World War II, "Collaboration with the BRITISH COMINT organization got off to a bad start so far as the Navy was concerned...," according to one newly declassified paragraph from the official history. "For several months U.S. Navy COMINT personnel thought they had been double-crossed by the British and were reluctant to go ahead with collaboration in direction finding and other matters which were greatly to England's advantage throughout 1941." Subsequent cooperation, however, proved "harmonious."

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no caste Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Possible North American Union? This was just released, a partially declassified document. Regarding the historic USA/UK alliance - ISCAP DIRECTS NSA TO RELEASE COMINT HISTORY ISCAP = Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ In 2005, the National Security Agency released a partially declassified (pdf) 1952 history of communications intelligence prior to Pearl Harbor with several passages censored. But this month, the NSA released the complete text (pdf, 25pp) of the document after the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) determined that there was no justification for continued classification of the withheld portions. During World War II, "Collaboration with the BRITISH COMINT organization got off to a bad start so far as the Navy was concerned...," according to one newly declassified paragraph from the official history. "For several months U.S. Navy COMINT personnel thought they had been double-crossed by the British and were reluctant to go ahead with collaboration in direction finding and other matters which were greatly to England's advantage throughout 1941." Subsequent cooperation, however, proved "harmonious."