W UVI W 11 slBl JWVV GBPDffiI GJ t1 wWV lDl WWlDl lD 00l EURiJGBPDl f 00 W 11 iJaJ GBPD STATIC MAGIC THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF TEMPEST U oooooooooooThomas M Donahueooo ooooooo 1 TEMPEST FOR EVERY OFFI CE U ooooooooooooooooooo 1 o oooo oo 3 I REMEMBER JFK U oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ReG R oo o o ' i ' o o o o o o o 5 MBTI THE MANAGEMEMNT TOOL OF THE FUTURE U ooo ooooooo 8 ACRONYMANIA U oooooo 11 THE WHITE HOUSE IS SINGING OUR SONG U ooooooooo AIbert I Murphy oo ooooooooo 13 THE LITERARY BENDS U ooooooooooooooooooooooo Albert I Murphy ooooooooooo 14 CIRCA 1949 U ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooo 19 5-4-3 PUZZLE ooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo Watt Zizname ooooooooooooooo 20 IIIS BOCtJMBN CON INS e09EWOR9 MATERIJ b GbtlSSIFIBB BJPY NSfJGSSM 113 1 YKSbhSSIFJPY 8N 8 ig na fng Ageaey'e Ye eFmiHa ieH e Ql Q Declassified and Approved for Release by NSA on 10-16-2012 pursuant to E O 13526 MDR Case # 54779 DOCID 4009885 Published by PI Techniques and Standards Editorial NOVEMBER 1983 VOL X No 11 Wayne PUBLISHER While I was perusing the Black Books for quotable oldies I realized that CRYPTOLOG comes from a long tradition In the 1920s the Signal Corps Bulletin published articles on cryptanalysis along with other subjects related to communications Before that as I recall around 1911 I think it was Maubourgne published the solution to the PLAYFAIR cipher in a periodical of the War College I think don't remember exactly BOARD OF EDITORS Editor ooooooooo I 1 963-3045s Asst Editor o I 1963-11035 production oooooooo 1 963-3369s Collectionoooooooooooo o 1 1 963-3961S Computer Security oooo Ji ---------- 4 968-7 313s t m ll Information S c i e n c e oooooo Carolyn Cornelius 963-5711s Mathematics ooooo o 1 1 968-8518s Puzzles David H Williams 963-1103s Special Research Vera R Filbyi 968'-7119s You might want to write an editorial on the disrupted continuity of documentation exchange of ideas etc Before CRYPTOLOG was KEYWORD and I dimly recall something before that 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JPY aCID 4009885 eeNFf8 N'fIkt '%5TA1fC MAGfCu ORTheWonderful World ofTfMPE5T OR One Man's Static Is b by Another Man's Treasure wqumus tI IJnnal1ul W'44 U DID YOU SEE WHAT I SAW U The COMSEC engineer almost had his nose pressed against the screen of the oscilloscope U How the devil did I know if I saw what he saw if I didn't know what he saw Besides it was hot and I had a headache U Staring at RF noise being displayed on an oscilloscope is like looking into a blizzard on New Year's' Eve You start to imagine things It had been a long day Suddenly two words appeared on the screen TERMINAL READY I blinked they were gone U The engineer twisted the dials on electronic intercept receiver A couple blurred words appeared A few more twists they became clear TOP SECRET danced at top of the screen the of and the U We smiled at each other I gave the engineer a pat on the the back My headache was gone We had done our thing There was tension in the air--like being caught with your hand in the cookie jar But i t was our cookie jar U The oscilloscope we were looking at was displaying classified information radiating from distant terminals in NSA Operations Building Number 1 We were sitting in a Winnebago camper van in the visitors' parking lot near Gate 2 ring the following two days we were able to intercept classified text from 84 terminals in A Group and 4 in B Group The terminals were immediately removed from service U Another time another place and more stolen cookies Nov 83 -te7 A secretary in the R Organization at FANX II was typing a classified memo that dealt with TEMPEST radiation Her curiosity was aroused The engineers in the lab were complaining about her new typewriter causing static in their equipment Could this static be a form of the compromising radiation she was reading about and could it be picked up by the cars and vans parked less than 50 feet away in the NSA parking lot U Later she asked her boss Am I radiating Always the gentleman he replied You certainly are Nancy Is that a new dress U Fortunately for the Agency she explained that it wasn't her dress she was worried about but her typewriter The typewriter she was using was being placed throughout the Agency because tests had shown it had very good TEMPEST characteristics What had not been foreseen was that an enterprising salesman to show his company's appreciation for the new contract was upgrading the typewriters at no cost to and without the knowledge of NSA management He was installing a device that let the typist see each line as it was being typed on an electronic display Unfortunately it also let someone 200 yards away with TEMPEST intercept equipment see each line as it was being typed U These are just two examples of TEMPEST problems at NSA There have been others U There is no special meaning in the word TEMPEST It was simply picked from a covername list by an NSA engineer in the early 1950s However TEMPEST has now become a generic word used throughout the US Government and industry to describe the unintentional emanation of classified information from an equipment It is used as a noun verb or adjective sometimes in the same sentence For CRYPTOLOG Page 1 aCID 4009885 example TEMPEST requires that we TEMPEST equipment to suppress TEMPEST radiation U NSA because of the variety of equipment and sensitivity of its work has always worried about possible TEMPEST leaks However it wasn't until the late 1970s that a workable plan was initiated to categorize equipment into groups by their TEMPEST characteristics Until then there was only one standard for describing TEMPEST characteristics NACSEM 5100 measures can be taken to insure that any radi ation can't be intercepted The latter can be accomplished by using the inherent attenuation provided by the location of the equipment such as our building zone concept or by building a special room to keep the radiation from getting out Such a room is called a shielded enclosure or for the old-timers a screenroom It's the same idea as Maxwell Smart's Cone Of Silence U This specificatiQn NACSEM NAtional ComSec Emsec Memorandum 5100 stated the laboratory- t sts- and radiation limits an equipment must meet to be TEMPEST approved It either did or did not meet it The intent of the specification was to prevent someone in one room from reading the emanations in an adjacent room U Designing and building equipment to meet the strict requirements of NACSEM 5100 is expensive It has been estimated that the cost of modifying all the typewriters computers etc used by NSA to process classified information to meet NACSEM 5100 would probably exceed the entire defense budget Yet Milton Zaslow a former Deputy Director for Telecommunications was fond of saying TEMPEST is a price we must pay to stay in business To overcome the cost versus security problem COMSEC developed the zone concept U The compromising radiation levels of off-the-shelf equipment are measured and the equipment is assigned a TEMPEST zone rating A Zone I rating means it has a low radiation profile while a Zone 5 rating is given to those with high levels of compromising radiation U Carrying the idea of the shielded enclosure to the extreme why not shield an entire building Then you could place equipment without worrying about TEMPEST radiation U Well if you have been watching Operations Building 2A going up you have been witnessing the building of NSA' s own Cone Of Silence That copper material that goes under the glass facing is for TEMPEST protection This building will be by far the largest shielded enclosure ever built The US Intellignce Community is watching this project with much interest If it works as well as we think it will full-TEMPEST buildings may well be the thing of the future There are also plans to TEMPEST-shield the Headquarters and Operations Building 1 The savings in convenience and dollars should be considerable U A few additional words on TEMPEST radiation There have been questions about the TEMPEST radiation that's going to be trapped inside the buildings by the shielding sri' t radiation bad for you Well let me put your mind at ease TEMPEST radiation is the same type of energy in the same frequency range as that used to broadcast radio and television signals but it is much weaker U There are two ways of providing TEMPEST The equipment can be designed so that it doesn't radiate in the first place or protecti n EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 Nov 83 U The radiation present in your liVing room coming from television Channel 2 is many times greater than the radiation from TEMPEST signals An hour at NSA with TEMPEST will be no more dangerous but probably a lot less exciting than an hour at home watching the tempestuous activities of The A-Team CRYPTOLOG eeUPIBBU'fL'JiIo Page 2 aCID 4009885 P L 86 36 iil by S6li r' rn- abn Doe mive' t in the ing powers up his computer workstation and relaxes with a cup of coffee while he reads his morning mail on the CRT screen Across the hall Sue Smith finishes editing her project report before routing it to the printer at the front of the room Meanwhile Kathy's secretary has just completed a large batch of correspondence that used to take twice as long to prepare These are just a few of the miracles that we all look forward to in the paperless office of the future High-technology firms have been gearing up to provide the computers printers workstations and other peripherals for the transition Experts predict that by using our computer know--how to solve information management problems we can save millions of dollars -in all areas of cost in the office Great ideal But what about the special problems that office automation presents to the US Government One of the problems of course is security Tb narrow down the scope of this article let's look at just one part of the security problem TEMPEST compromising emanations o At some point a decision WaS made that John Doe's workstation would have to meet the government's TEMPEST requirements The decision may have been made by John Doe himself by his security Chief or by the local TEMPEST authority A requisition was made for a workstation and some few months later John Doe sits at his terminal reading and writing with the greatest of easel The process of procuring a TEMPEST-suppressed terminal has become this simple only in the last few years In 1976 on behalf of the National Communications Security Committee NeSC the National Security Agency created the Industrial TEMPEST Program ITP Until that time the only way the government could obtain TEMPESTsuppressed equipment was to let a contract for the development of each specific equipment needed Each contractor was given the classified information necessary to design and test its product This was an expensive process As the government's need for information processing equipment grew the impact of the high cost of these contracts also grew The ITP was formed to provide an alternative to this steadily increasing cost of TEMPEST protection Its purpose is to satisfy the government's need for TEMPEST-suppressed equipment by involving industry in the development of TEMPEST-suppressed products that can be purchased off the shelf This is a unique charter for a government program and the ITP is a unique creation The program is based on a no-eost contract between the government llnd qualified US companies that voluntarily develop test llnd produce TEMPEST-suppressed equipment using their funds rather than government funds To join the ITP a company must satisfy a set of qualifications pertaining to US ownership and security clearances and make a clear commitment to develop TEMPEST-suppressed equipment Additionally the company's llctivities must be of obvious benefit to the government A company remains in the program by working toward the goal of developing TEMPEST-suppressed information processing equipment Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG page 3 - - - ---------------------- aCID 4009885 The no-cost contract known as the ITP Memorandum of Understanding calls for certain commitments for both government and industry to contribute to the development process The government provides classified specifications technical assistance technical training in the form of Air Force TEMPEST courses and the government market for TEMPEST-suppressed equipment Industry provides those resources needed to put TEMPEST onto the production line These include development expertise TEMPEST test capability R D expertise and funding and the manufacturing capability The success of the government-industry partnership is undisputed Since 1976 ITP membership has grown from 9 to 95 companies The number of government-accredited TEMPESTsuppressed devices has also multiplied In 1979 when the first list of accredited items the Preferred Products List PPL was published it listed 11 different products Today the PPL includes 135 deVices such as word processors printers communications terminals and CRT display units There are other benefits from this arrangement as welL Advantages to the government include a larger selection of TEMPEST-suppressed products at lower prices an excellent channel of communication with industry and firm control over the dissemination of TEMPEST information Companies in the program gain the opportunity to compete effectively in the TEMPEST marketplace EO 1 4 d P L 86-36 Dear Sir 6 SS8 I waS particularly interested to read your CRYPTOLOG May 1983 article on the Computerizing of TA The analysis of what the TA analyst looks for and needs from ADP and the conclusion in favour of PINSETTER-type software support is remarkably conslstent with our own findings in J Division _ following a detailed systems analysis exercise conducted throughout 1982 As a resul t of this we are proposing for J Division a solution nicknamed I which will be ba8 d on UNIXPINSETTER work at NSA I _t Close communications between ITP members and the government has been an important factor in the success of the ITP As the relationship between ITP members and the government continues to grow and strengthen we expect to see even better results from the program Our efforts will be devoted to better communications with ITP members smoother operation of the program and even cheaper TEMPEST-suppressed products for the government o The ultimate goal is for ITP companies to introduce their TEMPEST-suppressed version of a product at the same time that the commercial version hits the marketplace This will give John Doe and friends the opportunity of obtaining the latest and greatest information processing equipment with TEMPEST protection at the same time that the rest of the world is discovering the same state of the art product in a commercial configuration Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG Page 4 I1 fffibl 'I'M SaUHI'f SIWlNll bS QNM ' 4009885 hy ff 18 N OW that November 1983has'rolled around the media can be expectedto make a lot of fuss over the fact lU HGR 15 one Qf everal seudQnyms that it has been 20 years since uSedby I - ' L _ 'i ' l' __ JP16 who D President John F Kennedy was assasremembered Mabel Babe In our August sinated in Dallas Texas The comlllentators issue and journalists have been making a semi-major event out of the anniversary Just like on Pearl Harbor Day everybody remembers where they were on November 22 1963 when they pess As luck would have it the outside first heard the news and similar inanities phone was on my desk so I got the full impact of his loud Wha-a-a-a-t She repeated the but anniversaries divisible by 5 or 10 always produce a greater outpouring of such deathless news and he uttered a short phrase that I prose So this 20th anniversary of President wouldn't dare repeat here and hung up the receiver without even saying Thanks or 'Byel Kennedy's death will no doubt engender exceptional numbers of articles radio and TV speWith a rather perplexed look on his face he cials memoirs even a book or two and countthen proclaimed to nobody in particular The less numbers of interviews asking that earthPresident has just been shot shaking question Where were you on that day Not that I think that all the to-do is really F8NS There was a series of thuds as pencils were dropped by a nwnber of sUFprised necessary but Cryptolog and 1 might as well get on the bandwagon analysts There were also excited cries of What did you say1 and Are you sure There was also an occasional How did you find out from SIGINT analysts used to checking source FeijS To get the burning question out of the way in case anybody cares where I was on validities Somebody said 1 won't believe it until I hear it over the Agency loudspeaker Friday 22 November 1963 let the record show system but to the best of my recollection that I was at work somewhere on the second such an announcement was not made For the floor of the NSA Building At that time rest of the day though various individuals there was only one the 3-story edifice now in the office would call relatives at home to known as the Operations Building Life was going on as usual in one of those offices that see if there was any later news A few individuals ran down to the parking lots to listen always seemed to be running at a fever pitch -- Every day is flap day here I was the way to news on their car radios At go-home time one person put it--and since our mission did President Kennedy was still in the hospital but the sad news came later not include keeping track of the president when he was traveling around CONUS nobody D The funeral took place the following gave much thought to the fact that JFK was gaMonday and all government employees got the ing to Dallas that day But shortly after day off but for several days after their relunch AI Graves' wife called him and gave him turn tQ work the major topic of conversationthe news Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG Page peR 8FFf8fM fSB eUM 5 aCID 4009885 -'-at least in the office where I was then working--was the lack of any official announcement over the loudspeaker system with things like You'd think a communications agency could at least communicate something like that to its employees being said more times than I care' to recall For the record during the next year or so the Agency did react to the criticism by announcing s'pace shots presidential signing' of Federal payraise legislation etc P6B6 However there are a few other things about President Kennedy's term that I remember at least as well as his last d y Considering that his term of office included the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis events that caused lots of extra work for this Agency and necessitated my working many 12-hour shifts 6-day -weeks and there were some others 'even more patriotic who put in 7-day weeks weekends when I'd work noon to midnight on Sunday and then go home only to be back in the office at 7 30 Monday I guarantee that it'll be a long time before I forget the Kennedy presidency 'Otto There were probably some employees who have put in 24-hour days and although I tried to do it on one occasion I was thwarted I could probably go look up the date but I don't feel like it However during the October 1962 Missile Crisis our section had gone on 12-hour shifts and I was on from midnight to noon but at midday I was in the midst of a long wrap-up report so I stuck around a few hours longer to finish it and then someone asked me for a little help on something he was doing and then something else happened and then something else and something else so I stayed a litle longer At this point I figured that since it was almost dinner time I might as well wait a bit longer and eat in the cafeteria While eating supper the idea hit me that since l'd been here f6r over 18 hours I might as well try for 24 but Carrie Berry one of my supervisol's dropped' back in the' evening to see how things were going She recalled having seen me that morning--I have one of those faces that it's hard to forgetl--and gently suggested that I should hit the road However we had heard that the president was going to be making a speech af 8 00 o'clock so I urged her to let me at least stick around to hear it on the portable radio that one of our coworkers had smuggled in I planned to find some other excuse at the end of the speech but Miss Berry anticipated me Within 10 seconds of the the president's last word while the radio announcer was still saying You have been listening to President Kennedy speaking live from the White House she told me in a very firm tone of voice that she apparently hadn't to use with me previously Nov 83 pe OK the speech is over Now get home so I left after only slightly more than 20 hours on the job that day U But another l-o-o-o-o-o-ong day in connection with John Kennedy that I'll certainly remember is the day of his inauguration in 1961 The announcement had been made that only Federal employees in the Washington would be given the day off subsequently we heard that Fort Meade was not considered part of the DC area It should be noted that for previous inaugurations the Agency had been housed at Arlington Hall which was in the Washington area so I remembered having gotten the day off when Eisenhower had been sworn in Accordingly I was annoyed at the thought that we wouldn't be getting the day off for the Kennedy inauguration Recalling the fact that the Agency had given its employees a few days off the previous winter because of severe snowstorms a few days before the ceremony I voiced a silent prayer asking for just enough snow on the 19th so that I'd be able to stay home on the 20th and watch JFK take his oath of office U Boy did my prayer get answered I It snowed so heavily on the 19th that the Agency powers that be decreed an early dismissal for all employees about 2 00 p m Letting everybody out at the same time on a good day would create a horrible enough traffic jam but turning the entire crew out at the same time on a snowy day really compounded confusion It took my carpool over an hour just to get off the NSA parking lot--by comparison on normal days it took me about 45 minutes to get all the way home to Southeast Washington--and almost another hour just to get over to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway The pac on the Parkway was mighty slow and the roads in the District of Columbia were clogged with snow and stalled cars so progress was difficult Fortunately I had just filled my gas tank the day before or else I might have joined them Every time we were stopped by a red light one of the carpool members and I would hop out and brush the snow off the back windshield Shortly after 10 p m r- staggered into my apartment cold and weary Yes I got to spend the day at home and was able to watch the swearing-in but I' ve been afraid to do any praying about the weather ever since U John Kennedy's inauguration address included the off-quoted line Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country That speech and that line are the examples of Kennedy oratory that most people remember best but the linguist in me has even more vivid memories of another JFK speech the one he made at the Berlin Wall in CRYPTOLOG Page 6PPI8IkC HSS 8NbJPY 6 4009885 FeR eFF1811 the Spdng of 1963 The president was not particularly known for his language abilities other than his penchant for salty language Dh could that man cuss The linguist in the family was his wife Jacqueline who had grown up with a French governess and was bilingual She studied Spanish prior to a presidential trip to South America and acquitted herself admirably in conversations with' Latin American dignitaries that fact the way she charmed Charles de Gaulle on a presidential mission to Europe and her remark about mink underwear are just about all I remember about her years in the White House JFK made one foray into the field pf foreign languages the so-called Ich bin ein Berliner speech D I've listened to recordings of that speech many many times and the only way that I know that his German words were supposed to be Ich bin ein Berliner are because that's the only thing that ma es sense in context it sounds like Ik benign b'layeh with the lay drawn out for an extra syl t able or two He spoke about how in an earlier times one of the proudest statements a free person could make I am a Roman was Civ s romanum sum citizen --and I must admit that he pronounced the Latin fairly well--and that since World War II all free men wherever they live are citizens of Berlin and therefore as a free man I take pdde in the words Ik benign b'layeh U But just before that paragraph he made another attempt to show off a little language knowledge--and truly a li ttle language knowledge is a dangerous th He pointed out that there were people who didn't understand the issue between the free world and Communism Let them come to Berlin he added There were others he said who considered Communism to be the wave of the future Let them come to Berlin Twice more he referred to people making simplistic statements made about working with the Communists About these individuals too he said Let them come to Berlin However the last time he decided to say it in German so he said Lassen sie nach Berlin kommen except that he pronounced it something like Laaa-s 'n zee nack Berlin common The only trouble was that the three previous times he had uttered the magic words the interpreter had rendered them more correctly as Sie soll'n nach Berlin kommen Nov 83 gSB 8NLJPY U Obviously what had happened was that Kennedy had asked someone How do you say 'Let them come to Berlin ' in German and that person not necessarily a competent German linguist had told him Lassen sie nach Berlin kommen which can be translated that way if you mean Allow them to come rather than the modal idea of they should or ought to come which the President had in mind Or it's possible that JFK had studied German in high school or college and had vague recollections of what he had learned I have used this example many many times to remind linguists to beware when some friend comes up to them and asks How do you say so- -so in Esperanto Oh it sounds very nice to be able to rattle off an answer right away but a cautious linguist will ask a few background questions trying to find out the context the precise shade of meaning the people who will see or hear the words etc etc If Kennedy's informant had asked to see the whole paragraph he or she might have deduced that Sie soll'n etc would have been better than Lassen sie etc U The story has a happy linguistic ending though A ter Kennedy had said Laaa-s'n zee nock Berlin common he listened to hear what the interpreter was saying--he obviously hadn't thought to do so the first three times --and realized that the interpreter had said something altogether different In a quick flash of that now-famous Kennedy wit he then said I would like to thank the interpreter for translating my German into GermanI Let the record show that the interpreter was right on the ball though because he rendered that remark as something like Ich will den Dolmetscher danken fuer die Uebersetzung meines Deutsches auf besseres Deutsch ooo for translating my German into better German U Let others remember John F Kennedy for his civil rights stands for his meetings with Khruschev for playing touch football or for the fact that he left the r off the end of Vigor vigah but prono nced one on the end of Cuba Cuber for telling us not ask what our country could do for us for appointing his brother to the cabinet or for having a pretty wife Let others remember JFK in terms of where they were or what they were doing when they learned he'd been assassinated I may think about those things but in addition I assure you that I'll remember JFK for a couple of the lo-o-o--o--o-o-ongest days in my life and for those language-related incidents at the Berlin wall CRYPTOLOG Page 7 FSR SFPISV C eBB Sfa y PeR SPPi'01iM 9SB QUI JPY aCID 4009885 MANAGEMEN1 B TOOL FTHE I P L heard of the Indicator MBTI for short you will probably be in the minor i ty over the next few years This psychometric questionnaire seems likely to become a new fad as a management tool it has been exploited in a big way by the Japanese who find it highly valuable in matching people to jobs For this reason alone US industries and Federal Agencies will probably use it increasingly in the near future It is easy to administer and easy to score and it provides an astonishing degree of useful insight into personality as it affects cooperation with others on team projects the likelihood of success at various types of jobs and matching up workers with the different styles and philosophies of different organizations or companies I f you have never Myers- riggs Type The MBTI was developed by two women Isabel Myers and her mother Katherine C Briggs during the 1950s entirely outside the mainstream of psychology A manual was published in 1962 by the Educational Testing Service and Myers and Briggs accumulated a large body of data by testing groups of people in a wide range of occupations and populations Interestingly enough in view of its current and growing popularity this instrument remained in obscurity well outside of the establishment of personality and vocational testing for many years Its developers were not academic psychologists they didn't belong to the club In fact the response from organized psychology was certainly cool if not hostile to quote the PUblisher's Foreword of Gifts Differ ing 2 o The MBTI has only begun to come into its own in the last decade perhaps even the last five years as more and more organizations and individuals discover its amaz- ing usefulness Nov 83 What is the MBTI It is a questionnaire which can be used to classify people by type along four major dimensions It is based on Carl Jung's theory of personality as described in his Psychological Types first published in English in 1923 ight be expected from that remarkable psychological innovator Jung's personality theory is unique and creative its flavor and approach to assessing personality carves out a whole new conceptual world totally different from other theories and assessment schemes The MBTI questionnaire contains a list of questions eliciting the testee's preferences among various kinds of activities It can be scored manually in seconds by a simple series of overlays with windows singling out sets of answers that pertain to each of the four main variables being measured It provides a personality type classification in the form of four letters for example ISTJ ENFP or INTJ Each of the four places in the classification code represents a choice between two possible preferences I or E S or N T or F and P or J The letters stand for terms which seem misleading at first reading you have to read the descriptions of the personality types choose all four letters in various combinations and practice applying them to friends and acquaintances before you get a good feel for what they imply Once you get the knack however I guarantee that you will find them astonishingly enlightening and helpful Here is a brief introduction to the type theory quoted from the Myers book Gifts Differing It is fashionable to say that the individual is unique Each is a product of his or her own heredity and environment and therefore is different from everyone else From a practical standpoint however the doctrine of CRYPTOLOG Page 8 PeR SPPi'01iAI 9SB 9N JPY 86-3 4009885 uniqueness is not useful without an exhaustive case study of every person to be educated or counseled or understood Yet we cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own All too- often others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason or do not value the things we value or are not interested in what interests us -The merit of the theory presented here is that it enables us to expect specific personality differences in particular people and to cope with the people and the differences in a constructive way Briefly the theory is that much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance it is in fact the logical result of a few basic observable differences in mental functioning -These basic differences concern the way people PREFER to use their minds specifically the way they perceive and the way they make judgements PERCEIVING is here understood to include the process of becoming aware of things people occurrences and ideas JUDGING includes the processes of coming to conclusions about what has been perceived Together perception and judgement which make up a large portion of people's total mental activity govern much of their outer behavior because perception--by definition--determines what people see in a situation and their judgement determines what they decide to do about it Thus it is reasonable that basic differences in perception or jUdgement should result in corresponding differences in behavior - pp 1-2 Bere in a very brief overview is a summary of the meanings of different choices for the four letters of the type code or -indicator- First letter E Extroversion or 1 Introversion o The introvert is a person whose main interest lies in his own -inner- world of ideas and concepts The term -introvert- has often been distorted or misused to mean a person who is antisocial shy reclusive even neurotic we must discard that pejorative abuse of the term in considering Jung's theory as used in the MaTI The extrovert is a person who directs his interest outward into the external world of people and things A good criterion in applying-' this choice is to ask yourself -00 1 frequently feel tired and people-weary after a noisy party or a long day spent interacting with people - If you answer -yes - you are probably an introvert If you feel pepped up raring to go on to another party or stay out all night you're probably an extrovert The introvert may have thoroughly enjoyed the interaction he isn't a misanthrope Be just needs frequent -alone Nov 83 time- and quiet space to catch up with his own inner life and balance the partying and gadding about The extrovert in contrast hates to be stuck by himself in a quiet corner He gets bored restless or sleepy there and soon finds an excuse to get back out into th-e action That doesn't mean however that he is necessarily a pushy noisy insensitive boor a frequent pejorative implication of the term -extrovert- in popular parlance Second letter N Intuition or S Sensing This choice defines two sharply con' trasting ways of perceiving preferred by different people Sensing people enjoy exploring the outside world through their eyes ears fingers and noses They prefer to get their data from the environment and through their senses Intuitives on the other hand prefer to consult their own mental world of associations symbols hunches and ideas to generate data Sensing people are down-to-earth objective pragmatic intuitives tend to be more creative and theoretical Sensing people are interested in the past or the here and now intuitives prefer future possibilities and leaps into the unknown Note that a person may be an extrovert preferring to act externally in a dynamic outer world and also an intuitive preferring conceptual or theoretical data from his own mind An introvert may also be a sensing person objective matterof-fact and practical Third letter T Thinking or F Feeling This dimension pertains to two contrasting ways of coming to conclusions preferred by different people Thinking people prefer to use logic reasoning systematically from A to B to C Feeling people care more about values the consequences or meanings of an act or object and its effects on other persons Thinking people are IlIOre interested in data about things or ideas feeling people prefer data about human beings and human relationships Again we have to guard against a hasty assumption that to be a Wfeeling- person in this sense means to be illogical or elllOtional or that -thinking- necessarily means intelligent The words are being used here in a very special way with no inherently good or bad implications Fourth letter P Perception or J Judgement A final preference that enters into the identification of type is the choice between a perceptive or a judging attitude in dealing with the world Perceptive people like to continue gathering data and keep their minds open as long as possible while judging people want things settled and a decision made Perceptives like to ride with the stream and dynamically follow it wherever it goes they don' t like things to be cut and dried Judging people want order CRYPTOLOG Page 9 4009885 predictability and seeing things in their proper places1 they don't like things to be up in the air or undecided These four pairs of choices result in 16 possible sets of four letters each having its own strengths and weaknesses in the context of certain kinds of jobs Marriages are apt to last longer and be happier i f the couple are compatible in type i e with at least two letters the same and preferably three If I am an INTJ and I work for a boss who is an ESFP we are both going to have some problems getting along especially if we are sitting at neighboring desks in the same small room I Many schoolteachers are SJs they have a hard time understanding and coping with the sizable number of perceptives in their classrooms they want order and common sense while the little Ps want to go with the flow and run about gathering data And so it goes on and on through far more examples than I can mention here I strongly urge anyone interested in human factors to read the two bOOks listed as references at the end of this article and if possible get himself and his family typed You are likely to find the results amusing and interesting at the very least and you may well also obtain some substantially useful self-knowledge At least one Management Course at the Agency covers the MBTI and the various implications of type in our work environments In fact I learned of the MBTI through a coworker who took this course and was greatly impressed by the insights he gained from it I then took a one-day seminar from Otto Kroeger and Associates the contractor who taught the Agency Management Course See the last reference at the end of this article for the full details The questionnaire was sent to me in the mail in advance 1 I returned my answers by mail and was assigned a type by the instructors before the day of the seminar There were about ten attendees all of whom had been assigned a type in advance by the instructors Our ing the IIlOrning we were told the history and general theory of the type indicator and the types We also participated in some very enlightening and amusing little exercises designed to illustrate some of the implications of the types in a very vivid manner having all the IIIOre impact since we did not yet know our types Since the instructors knew our types they could assign us to subgroups whose members all shared certain important letters in common In the afternoon after we had gone through several of these li ttle games we were told what our types were definition of leadership My subgroup had four members We sat right down and got bUsy finishing our task long before the others I was amazed at the feeling of satisfaction I had everything went so slllOOthly with these people We were all so sensible We all were on the same wavelength and it was a joy to work on our little team Our definition of leadership included words like practical objective and responsible And no wonderl We all turned out to be SJs sensing judging types The NTs intuitive thinkers argued long after their time was up and their definition of leadership featured intelligent and creative The NFs intuitive feelers sat on the floor in a huddle 1 they too talked on past the time limit Their definition focused on ability to communicate and get along with people It was a revelation to me how uniquely easy and pleasant a task could be in a team of people intentionally matched by type What benefits might we not reap in many walks of life if we could learn to make conscious and intelligent use of this tool Perhaps someday children wiil learn the characteristics of the different types in school and be taught how to make the IIIOSt of their own and' others I predictable strengths and weaknesses I am still amazed at how completely my own behavior preferences and interactions with others are described and predicted by this theory of personality In fact I am still discovering new insights based on my own type classification Try it You can't lose and you might gain a lot of valuable self-knowledge References 1 Myers I B Introduction XE 2nd edition Center for Applications of Psychological Type Gainesville FL 1976 2 Myers I B and P B Gifts Differing Consulting Psychologists Press Inc Palo Alto CA 1980 3 otto Kroeger Associates 1401 South Barton St Suite 242 Arlington VA 22204 703 892-4566 I will never forget the impact of one exercise where we were split into three groups and told to work separately to come up with a Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG Page 10 aCID 4009885 P L Captain USAF JOCep C HRIS HAS TO GO RUN This sentence is very innocent-looking Although it may not be entirely correct grammatically it is made up of words U that form a meaningful sentence and has another claim to fame All the words in it are acronyms According to the Acronyms Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary 8th edition 1983-84 edited by Ellen T Crowley CHRIS Cancer Hazards Ranking and Information GBP Ystem - HAS igh ngle trafe TO uesdays Q nly GO GBPeneral Qrder and RUN eduction Unlimited CD Acronyms unlike ordinary abbreviations consist of letters usually initial letters of words although sometimes two or more letters from one word will be used that are strung together so as to form meaningful-or at least pronounceable--words or names Acronymania as I call the practice is sweeping America it is especially prevalent in the military Many military projects take on names that most often have some relationNov 83 ship to the nature of the proj ect One instance of this for example is the Navy term SWAM an acronym meaning Shallow Water Attack craft edil DD - U The words RADAR and LASER both started out as acronyms Radar stands for radio detection and ranging while laser means Tight amplification by stimulated emission of radiation These words are used so often in normal conversation that they have both been accepted and duly listed in dictionaries U Although the military creates the lion's share of acronyms they aren 'ot the only users There are plenty of acronyms employed in the civilian community too Some of these actually fit the cause the organization represents For example WIN for Whip Inflation Now was a popular if not infamous button worn briefly during Gerald Ford's administration The button may still be seen in the halls of the National Security Agency being worn by members of Women in NSA And what about the organization NOW the National Organization for Women The name Of the organization drives home the point of immediacy At many of their rallies you'll hear the shout What do we want ERA When do we want it NOW MAnD Mothers Against Drunk Qrivers shows the anger of the members - CRYPTOLOG Page 11 86-36 ero 4009885 U Some organizations choose acronyms that point toward the danger of whatever it is that they're trying to combat Two examples that come to mind are GASP the Group Against Smog and Pollution and WAR Women Against Rape And -let's not forget SHHH -Self-Help for ard-of- earing People - U Comically some acronyms can actually be confused with real words that may not even come close to the meaning intended For example many people refer to a Short Takeoff and Landing aircraft as a STOL pronouncing the acronym an awful lot like the word stall which we all know is a word used to describe the condition when an airfoil is incapable of producing lift causing the aircraft to dive Or how about the Navy's CINCUS for Commander-in-Chief US pronounced Sink us - U 1 was a little worried when 1 heard about a group on some college campuses called STOP-NSA because 1 thought they were trying to put our agency out of business Boy was 1 relieved when I learned that it stood for Students to Oppose Participation in the Nati nal Student Association - - - U Of course some people develop acronyms or see them in places where none was intended I know several drivers who seem to think that the word STOP you see on those octagonal signs stands for tart 1 romping n Eedal U We use so many acronyms in our daily work that it's a good thing we don't carry this practice over into the world beyond the fences Can you imagine what an everyday conversation might sound like if normal peoJple peppered their speech with acronyms It might well sound like the old Who's on First routine Just a sample of this follows Hi Are you going to study CHRIS My name'Ej not Chris it's Jack CHRIS is a system stupid It's the Cancer azards anking and Information Ystem and you better know all about it I can't study anything now to a SIN meeting I'm on my way You mean you have to go to meetings to do that NO no you dodo SIN is my coin collecting rganization meeting It is held TO Held to what Not held Only U How many times have people gotten confused between NASA the National Aeronautics Sp ce Administration and Nassau the capital of the Bahamas You never know if the person you're talking to is discussing a current space shot or telling you about his vacation U Another case where a real word is also an acronym of unrelated meaning is SIN which stands for the Society for International Numismatics For those'who don't have a dictionary handy numismatics simply means coin collecting which isn't really a sin although the spouses of such hobbyists may think so Nov 83 to anything TO means Tuesdays 1 give up up 1 'm ready to go Ready to GO How do you get ready for a General Order I didn't say 'GO' I said 'go' You know depart leave scram vamoose hit the road decamp Okay but let's leave with an acronym about a KISS What You know KISS eep It ihort tupid CRYPTOLOG Page 12 How aCID 4009885 FeR epPi8i b aBH 8ML1 THE WHITE HOUSE IS SINGING OUR SONG M r by Abert L Wuphy' E403 Iii h dynami Lt Col Tom Mu avaki of the White House staff socked it to us-in a beautiful way He presented his informative and thoroughly entertaining program on U Just Plain English in the packed Friedman Auditorium first on 26 September 1983 for the NSA heavy hitters Grade 15s and above and the equivalent military ranks and then on the 27th and 28th for the at large NSA audiences And what a show whole array of bad things that are-happening in Government writing we let him see some actual samples of unclassified NSA writings the gobbledygook the evasiveness the passive voice the bankrupt language the inappropriate tone-all of it And he didn't hesitate to identify the groups he viewed as the prime offenders lawyers educators can you believe it and military people You've got lots of ex-military people here at NSA he said I can tell U In those three days he convincingly reinforced all the things we at the National Cryptologic School have been trying to do over the past several years in terms of persuading all NSA writers in general and NSA supervisors and managers in particular to come down to earth in their writing--to write in a way that's compact natural o and to the point He was singing one of our old and familiar songs and the words came back as clear as your please U We were so pleased with what he had to say and at how he said it that we decided to describe some of the outstanding details of his presentation But then we thought that instead of doing that we'd ask the editors of Cryptolog to republish an article from the January 1982 issue that addressed this problem in much the same way Lt Col Murawski did The hope was that all writers at the Agency will take heed because what the article said is now strongly endorsed by this potent force on the White House staff The editors obliged Please turn the page U Lt Col Murawski is a tenured professor of English at the US Air Force Academy and is currently serving as an adviser on clear writing to the White House staff His charge is to teach Just Plain English to the major federal agencies That's precisely what he did here at NSA He skillfully described the Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG Page 13 FeR ePFi6iaz 88 QShY ero 4009885 SilElRGBPl'f SFaIU o o o o THEUTERARY m he story goes that a famous author once was approached at a cocktail party by a young aspiring writer who had in his hand a large draft of a U novel he had written The young man perhaps more brash than polite asked the author to take the draft read it and suggest a title The author taken aback by such directness and by the size of the document thought for a moment then asked 00 you mention drums anywhere in the story No sir replied the young man Do you mention trumpets Again No sir The maneuver had worked Then why don't you call it 'No Drums No Trumpets' U In the business of teaching Introductory Writing EG-022 and Expository Writing EG-122 at the National Cryptologic School NCS we have encountered some rather pointed feedback from some of our students which cannot be so easily put aside The students talk of two worlds of writing at NSA the ideal world of writing as taught here at the school and the real world of writing as practiced on the job Eventually one of them will crystallize the issue by saying This course is all well and good But when I finish it I know I'm going to be faced with the decision of writing your way for the sake of good writing or of knuckling under to my supervisor's blue pen for the sake of my next promotion Rightly or wrongly the haunting question inevitably comes to mind Is his or her supervisor under 35 years old and a product of society's convulsing educational system We choose never to ask it Nov 83 U How valid are these rumblings What is the extent of alleged shortcomings in the way people in management write we're talking primarily about supervisors and staff editors And what are we going to do about it Based on our own collection of bits of evidence coupled with this human testimony from the students we believe that the rumblings have some validity But since we have neither the mandate nor the resources nor the time for a thorough research effort the best we can do is to present the problem in this vehicle in the hope that the managers in question will read it and do something about it U Just before the students complete our courses as part of a normal procedure we alert them to the post-course period of what we call the literary bends during which they might find it difficult to apply their newly acquired or their refreshed set of rules of good grammar and effective writing Don't be surprised we tell them to find your pencil frozen in your hand or your fingers immobile at the typewriter during your first writing tasks on the job They understand that Some have reported that that's exactly what happen d Others have had to wrestle with the problem while still in the course It is unfortunate however that' we are now compelled to warn them of possible additional difficulties that can occur when a person in the supervisory chain whether through ignorance or obstinacy or alas because of misguided pressure from a supervisor at yet a higher level discourages the students' attempts to apply what we have taught them CRYPTOLOG Page 14 SHeM' ' SPElftB DOCID 4009885 SSQRI3'l' SP9RS U If managers are willing to face up to the reality that some of their people are frustrated in their' jobs because as they perceive it we don't practice what we preach in the field of wr iting then we are well on our way to solving the problem Perhaps then our message to managers ought to be Managers By all means enforce good quality control but in the process please be aware of this problem be fair with your people and be square that is be traditional ' with the language We contend that the modernists are wrong Like it or not there is an English Lanquage and it is governed by a set of rules for correct grammar effective sentence and paragraph structure and good writing style Perish the thought of Congress wanting to change the words of the Constitution to accommodate modern linguistic happenings U You managers if you are following this discourse in earnest should be asking at about this point Well what have you been telling our people in your classes Our answer is that we've tr ied to convey to them the fact that there is beauty in our language and that the students should find it and use it We have found hat they not only are receptive to this idea but also at times are resourceful and not too subtle in expressing their endorsement You can experience intellectual beauty we once told them by merely pronouncing the names of tribes of American Indians for they have a majestic quality that evokes through vivid mental picture of frontier days much of what is noble in the American character Cheyenne ooo Pawnee ooo Apache ooo Comanche ooo Sioux ooo Shoshone-- Grammar Spelling and Punctuation U We have compiled an array of real-world writings from NSA in-house correspondence and CRITICOMM messages which we contend are inconsistent with what we teach But in order not to raise the hackles of a iot of people we will cite only a few that are important to the point we are trying to make and then only when we think they will do no harm Recently E asked various in-house elements to submit any comments they might have on an NCB course on reporting which some of their people attended I t was a bit disconcerting when a staff editor of one of those elements in his responding memorandum said We don't need grammer in the course We in the editing chain- can handle it Impertinent of us to mention this you say Well maybe But what about the problem of credibility It's there isn't it If the element in question recognizes its handiwork here we hope the people involved will not take umbrage but will view it in the spirit of light criticism and let us make our point We have taught your people that 1 Dangling and misplaced modifiers are major causes of confusion in conununication to wit The second child Nancy was the only child of a mother who was divorced in her infancy and nIf found guilty the Division of Motor Vehicles will be notified and your license may be subject to suspension 2 Pronouns must agree in number with their antecedents A certain ABC television reporter either didn't do his homework or decided to go modern when in describing a recent hurricane he said Damage will be in the millions but only one person lost their life I here the students joined in-Mohawk ooo Cherokee ooo Blackfeet ooo Chippewa ooo Algonquin ooo Iroquois Then the spell was broken as quickly as it began 'when one of the students wistfully offered ooo the Washington Redskins We have told them about the importance of good communication whether in face-to-face conversations on the telephone or in writing and of the potential disasters of failing to communicate We've aqvised them not to write without good reason But once they've decided to write they should spend some time thinking about what they want to say 'before committing their thoughts to paper They've heard us say many times that bad writing is usually the result of poorly thought-out ideas Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG Page 15 DOCID 4009885 1 4 c L 86-36 The Sentence Since your people are not as gifted as General MacArthur was we have trained them not to write long Aristotelian sentences So when you see them trying to limit their sentences to about twenty words or fewer to the fullest extent that the content will allow it -- let them we've talked them into it Consider the following long but not necessarily Aristotelian opus that appeared in an out-going NSA CRITICOMM message 3 Billy Kilmer used incorrect grammar in his beer cOlllIllercial when he praised his beer for having less calor ies He should have said fewer c ies because few er is used with things you can count and less is used with things you cannot count ---r'If there were fewer TVs there would be less noise 4 A writer can quickly reveal himself as less than professional if he is careless with spelling Consider the following statement that appeared in a real-world NSA CRITICOMM message SGT John Doe IS REQUIRED TO BE INDOCTERNATED FOR special clearances PRIOR TO DEPARTURE FROM YOUR STATION An astute post-publication unfortunately cOlllIllent written across this gem facetiously noted that This wil hep with hes clarence Also we've made it known that irregardless is a self-contradictory nonword despite the regrettable fact that it is listed in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary - -- 5 A cOlllIlla is required before and when presenting a ser ies of more than two items matrix row and column One of our students descr ibed in class how he was rebuffed by his supervisor for insisting on applying this rule We suggested he have his supervisor call us to talk about it We are still waiting for the call Managers When your people try to apply the rules of good grammar spelling and punctuation in their day-to-day writing they are not trying to out-write you They are only doing what they learned So please--let them Nov 83 We suspect that a period a full stop might have been intended after the word producer in the tenth line but it wasn't evident in the copy of the message we hold Even if the period had been inserted the latter sentence containing at least 105 words would still tax the patience of the reader U In order to compose good expository sentences our students are following the FACTS formula the Fast Accurate Concise True and Simple way That means they will be trying their best to use the active voice instead of the great evader and a lot of concrete one-syllable words we just can't bring ourselves to say monosyllabic as opposed to polysyllabic in this context We hope we have burned i 19 their memories the Lensear write Formula which encourages short sentences the active voice and onesyllable words If you ask them about it the CRYPTOLOG SFCPF'I iPQKE Page 16 BHeM ' SPQKB aCID 4009885 chances are good they will be able to recite to you the clear and simple something special lead that an obscure reporter wrote on the death of Samuel Clemens in 1910 which must have caught the breath of all who read it Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are orphans tonight Mark Twain is deadl Notice the number of one-syllable words U We encouraged your people to use parallelism correctly and wisely in their writing to incorporate an effective blend of periodic and loose sentences to show their maturity in the use of subordinate clauses and to include in their list of writing don'ts the principle that smothered verbs strong verbs turned into weak nouns such as -ization -ment and -ure words and passive voice constructions frequently go hand-in-hand The poorly written sentence The specialization of many professions is necessitated by the complexity of our society is best recast to read Many professions must specialize because our society is complex The finest sentence that we've come across at the school so far in terms of sound structure clear and simple content and yes downright beauty was written by a student in her autobiography project She wrote When I was little my father often said that I was the best door slammer this side of the Mississippi River Is there any wonder why we abhor the likes of the sentence The possible appearance of a new communications network was observed oooo Managers When your people try to write in clear simple and direct language don't assume that they are undereducated They're only doing what they learned So please--let them The Paragraph ie - All four of these properties we have insisted are essential for good paragraph structure But the one that usually causes lengthy discussions in class is TONE We think this is good because it tells us that the students are trying to be sensitive to how it will sound to the reader by steering away from unwanted tone So they wrestle with another set of don'ts Don't be offensive ooo bossy ooo contradictory ooo and so on Managers Are you with us In one of our classes in Expository Writing a discussion on paragraph tone developed after we explained how the tone of separate paragraphs in a piece of writing say in a SIGINT report ought to be consistent with thegeneral tone of the writing We gave the example of reports forwarded to the NSAPAC REP VIETNAM NRV staff in Saigon in 1971 by one of the ten ARVN Special Technical Detachments ASTO which time and again reflected a tone of absolute terror The perimeter of the site was not secure and the ARVN people didn't seem to care When the reports from this ASTD came in the staff was obliged not without some pangs of conscience to change the tone of the reports to fit the dispassionate objective tone of the monthly status report within which they were incorporated for forwarding to the Director the Vietnamization Improvement and Modernization VIM report One of the students who obviously had after-the-fact sympathy for the plight of the writers of those reports US soldiers assigned to the ASTO questioned the changing of the tone After we explained some of the unpleasant realities of the situation we also apprised her of her handicap as a caring human being she conceded that the tone of that ASTD's reports had to be changed and that our point on consistent and appropriate paragraph tone was well taken in the class U We have practically ordered your people never to settle for a paragraph that doesn't have the standard properties of UNITY COHERENCE ADEQUATE DEVELOPMENT and CONSISTENT AND APPROPRIATE TONE Unity calls for one central idea and a single topic sentence coherence-the paragraph form--is the writer's sequence of thoughts from one sentence to the next which he achieves through the use of connectives or transitional words and phrases adequate development--the SUbject matter of the parag r aph--i nvolves the who what when where and why whether accomplished through definition comparisons and contrasts cause and effect logic or analysis and classification and tone deals with not what the writer says but how he says it Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG Page 17 aCID 4009885 EO 1 4 c EOI 4 d P L 86-36 Gobbledygook U We have described to your people considerable detail the perennial enemy good writing namely gobbledygook federalese--the old obscure wr iting that usually meant to impress rather than to press We have convinced them we hope in of or is ex- 1 that it is foolish to use high-sounding words such as utilize implement initiate viable optimum and terminate -- 2 that roundabout expressions such as It is believed ooo and There is are ooo make for weak writing because they tend to repeat they are often vague and they leave the reader with no way of knowing what is meant thus forcing him to work for nothing 3 that we condemn the use of the expression It is felt that ooo because it has three inherent strikes against it--it is roundabout it is passive and it is false one doesn't feel an argument or a contention one thinks it or one believes it 4 that circumlocutions such as Owing to the fact that ooo Concerning the matter of ooo and In reference to ooo are nothing more than deadwood and 5 that illogical incongruous or inappropriate metaphors should be avoided After analyzing the following real-world statements we couldn't come up with a reasonably good answer to the question What happened to the quality control system L-__ __ __-JI We also shudder to think of the possible unthinkable consequences of gobbledygooked guidance from NSA and gobbledygooked responses from field elements on matters about current developments in the world in general and in Eastern Europe and the Middle East in particular The solution to NSA Crostic No 35 Cryptolog OCtober 8ll f r om I 1 aptly supports all we've been trying to say here P L 86-36 1 '9 cODtaiPr a poignant comment Plain English that If we want all Agency personnel to speak and write plain English perhaps we should first teach Agency personnel English If we want Agency management to write concise active decisive memos perhaps we should first teach Agency management to be concise active and decisive Let us attack the problem not just the symptom U Having stated our case we fully intend to continue to orchestrate drum rolls and trumpet blares for the cause of getting managers to cooperate in making clear simple direct brief and appropriate writing happen at NSA 1 Gobbledygook Has Gotta Go u s Department of the Interior -aureau-ofLand Management page 7 US Government Printing Office 1978 0-269-955 The state of the art as it exists today oooo It's a sad day of affairs oooo o We should be starting out with a clean foot Let' scalI th is one a combined instead of a mixed metaphor Those gems are not any worse or if you like any better than the Golden Oldies taken from letters received at a welfare department in Tennessee some years back you old-timers might remember them I am very much annoyed to find you have branded my son illiterate This is a dirty lie as I was marr ied a week before he was born Unless I get my husband's money pretty soon I will be forced to live an immortal life and 1 am glad to report that my husband who is missing is dead Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG Page 1B DOCID 4009885 S 8SIU 'f SF 6K'fJ CIRCA 1 GBP1 Reminiscences of an nterce t Operator U Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG Page 19 iii EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 SESaB'f SP E 4009885 In the diagram below each row is divided into 5 unequal segments the center 3 of which are labeled 5 4 and 3 The digit in parentheses tells you how many letters there are in the word being defined in the list of DEFINITIONS in the right column each group of explanatory terms has a number corresponding to the row of the diagram and a subsort showing the number of letters in the word being defined When you have figured out the 5-letter word being defined write it in the appropriate box under the 5 Now try to find a 4-letter word that matches the 4 definition given and uses four of the five letters in the word you just wrote The letters can be rearranged NOw take the omitted letter and write it in the small square on the left end of the appropriate row Next take 3 of those 4 letters to make a word that matches the 3 definition putting the dropped letter in the square at the right end of the row 5-4 3 ZLE U PUZ by 'Wt TT ZIZNAME ' PI If you've found all the correct words and picked out all the right letters when you read down the column of boxes on the left and then the right you should see that the 22 letters you've written in those squares spell out a 3-word phrase that should be familiar to you The second word is divided between the bottom of one column the top of the other DEFINITIONS ill 5 beneath 4 description of the bridge that arched the flood 3 color of blood a Square in Moscow 2 5 seat presidency 4 wealthy 3 bin ein Berliner I3 5 malice 4 mince' lemon meringue for example 3 between Aug OCt 4 5 Gertrude of -Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose- fame 4 word after -love- or before -egg- 3 Latin being 5 5 actor Charles or ballplayer Cletus 4 stable for cows a Briticism 3 Johnny Confederate soldier 6 5 what Rembrandt and Titian did and used 4 Middle Eastern pocket bread 3 form of bribe allegedly -to insure promptness- that Ambrose Bierce described as salary we pay to other people's help 7 5 raised platform on which performances are presented kind of coach 4 obtains 3 -Ready gol8 5 Joseph COnrad LeCilwalesa Madame Curie and Pope John Paul I I among others 4 sit for an artist 3 a piece of bread or other food soaked in milk or broth before being eaten gift for Cerberus 9 5 Greek mythological creature half human half bird police car adjunct 4 strap for making a horse go -Whoal- 3 anger 10 5 length of a boxer's extended arm when throwing a punch 4 part of the foot kind of bishop curvature 3 short cheer Hur's last name 11 5 Jones the engineer 4 affirmative votes 3 Black Red or Yellow 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 The solution will appear in issue of Cryptolog the next Nov 83 CRYPTOLOG Page 20 4009885 0 OCID n @112 Ola 315 what Nov 83 caxpTonos Page 21 Bil-3345653 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu