W UVffiW 11 15lBlDWVU 615WlB wwv ww Q OO fil f W W k Wfil 1 A V I o P o THROUGH THE ATTIC OF N S O C o o o o o AI KI A SAM oo o o ooooooo o o o o ooo oooooo W HOW DO YOU SPELL PEKING 2 I I i' P 1 Meyer ooooooo o 6 7 l NO NO NANETTE MEANS yES ooooooo A J S ooooo ooooooo ooo 12 SOME TIPS ON GETTING PROMOTED 13 AGENCY ENCOURAGES SUMMER LANGUAGE STUDY o Dan Buckley oooooo oooo 20 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN o Lou Grant o ooooooooooo 21 NSA-CROSTIC NO 20 David H Williams 22 1978 INDEX o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 24 READER SURVEy o oo oo ooooooooooooooooooooo oo o o oooo ooooooooo 29 1 IllS BOetJMBN'f eON'I IN8 C99HW9RD MlJtTERIAI I llIIIlIi etl h BIRHsh snsss HtiM SSBM 1M 2 ElIUIII' 1181 G Q EQ Ilin Cltellery 2 Beclaaail pun Notification hy the 8Iiiioo to Declassified and Approved for Release by NSA on '10-'1 2- 20'1 2 pursuant to E O '135 26 vl DR Case # 54778 DOCID 4011702 'fOP SECRE'f Published Monthly by PI Techniques and Standards for the Personnel of Operations VOL V No 12 DECEMBER 1978 PUBLISHER WILLIAM LUTWINIAK BOARD OF EDITORS Editor in Chief Arthur J Salemme 39575 Co 11 e c t i on 1'--- Cryptanalysis Cryptolinguistics 1 Language 1 Machine Support r Mathematics 'EIIr ---lh8SSS 5 '1 ' E k490Z 1 S9g s 1 8T6l 1 8 5rlf8 S S 804S Special Research Vera R Filby 7119s Traffic Analysis Don Taurone 35735 Production Manager Harry Goff 52365 For individual subscriptions send name and organizational designator to CRYPTOLOG PI 'fOP SECRET P L 86-36 DOCID 4011702 'POP SECRE'P UMBRA P L f you're walking along the east corridor of the third floor of the NSA Operations Building you will find a purple door A sign beside it identifies the organization A511 COC What goes on behind that purple door If you open that door and walk in at any time of the day or night you might be confronted with the followinGBP scene I If you ask what's going on someone may hand you a copy of USSID US which tells you that COC handles But what's going on Would You Like a VIP Tour Excuse me I'm the Chief oGBPCOC and I understand your bewilderment One of my pet peeves is listening to people who speak only in abbreviations acronyms and assorted December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page I 'fOP SECREI' UMBRA EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 DOCID 4011702 16ft SECRt3'f UMBRA technical jargon Unfortunately ourso_is a highly specialized business that requires a special language combining computer terms with CA expressions -and TA phrases mingled with signals notations and collection management lingo And then we throw in a little slang of our own from time to time But I'm happy to translate Let me offer you a VIP tour not because you're a Very Important Person -that's assumed if you open our purple door -- but because you deserve a Very Introspective Peek into the world of COCo This a very special tour that is not offered every day of the week it is tailored primarily for your enjoyment and secondarily for your enlightenment It is also strictly unofficial so I can feel free to express ob servations from my personal viewpoint allowing my boss es to disclaim reponsibility for anything I say which I am sure they wish they could do more often If at the end of the tour you want to know more please call me on the secure phone x434ls and I'll be happy to arrange an official tour What Is a COC Why Is Thsl'e a COC I think too often we plunge into the details of what we are doing without challenging why Who needs a COC anyway Yes you may be thinking but cryptanalysis is not a real-time art The craft of the cryptanalyst is pursued slowly and methodically especially in unraveling the mysteries of modern encipherment schemes Who needs a round the clock Operations Center to support that Your point is well taken but bear with me a moment longer COC then is a round-the-clock current operations center December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 2 EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 'fOP SHEURRH'f UMBRA Eo 4 DOCID 40111c12 c 86 36 TOP SECRET UMBR A Who Invented COC No one did Lots of people did I imagine the concept is about 20 years old because it takes a while for ideas even good ones to get translated into workable processes and organizations December 78 o CRYPTOLOG ge 31 c EO 1 4 d 'fOP SHeRE UMBftA 86-36 DOCID EO 1 4 c 4 l-74J2J P L o 86 36 TOP S CK T Ul fHR December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 4 EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 DOCID 4011762 7 Vi December 78 Page 5 DOCID 4011702 7 Eo-1- 4 c P L 86-36 'fOP SECRET tfMBItA a k a Sam W P Meyer T1213 Well there you have it a peek into CDC from the point of view of the chief of the operation ' 1 - - -- Iarrive as I OUr players a heterogeneous assortment of individuals -- old young black white male female -- wearing different uniforms and playing different instruments depending upon their SIGINT training and levels of professionalism For one brief period in their careers they join together to playa part upon which the full orchestra depends I think they play it well CDC can be a thankless business Persons in the military can serve a tour at NSA on a watch team and depart without knowing the value of the contribution Formal recognition for their services and personal appreciation is inadequately expressed For the civilians who have deep insights into the collection-coordination process and who make repeated judgments upon which successful collection so often depends the job can be even more thankless for promotions and opportunities for career advancement are notoriously limited I state this not as a complaint but as a personal observation I have also observed the value of self-satisfaction as a stimulus for motivation Despite the criticism received about things in CDC that were allegedly mishandled -- and they seem to be endless -the CDC worker can sense that because of his or her personal performance of duty -- on that lovely summer weekend on that cold rainy night on that snow day when everyone else got off because of hazardous road conditions on e s Some of the younger people who have passed through CDC discover for the first time in their lives that the highest praise is that awarded by the respect of their peers even when that praise is unspoken They depart with a heightened sense of maturity that will prove meaningful throughout their lives At least I'd 1 ike to think so End of speech End of tour Dh yes and one post mortem Why didn't I call this a VIP tour of CDC Well I figure that just about everyone knows where NSDC is I know that everyday as I pass those paneled walls leading fr llI the escalator to NSDC surtey those splendid seals and then climb one more flight of stairs to CDC I just have the feeling that I'm working in their attic It's kind of a lofty idea ft'5EURt EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 O n her birth cert flcate m rand- er's name lSI _ _ I or the I have never care name so I have always called her by her initials When she was three Sam came to live with me Across the alley lived a little girl the last of four children Everyone in her family called her Baby Doll What her real name was I do not know Recently I proudly took Sam to register for school and discovered that the school wisely asks Does your child recognize her name Are you asking yourself What's the point What does this have to do with me Well before you answer yourself answer these questions o Wherever you work in the Agency do you too use pet names favorite expressions in-house jokes o In your writing do you obscure your meaning by using jargon and filling paragraphs with unexpanded acronyms that some of your readers might not be familiar with o When you know the correct nomenclature do you use it o Does your work recognize its name -the description you give it If you don't know the correct word what should you do You should consult dictionaries glossaries and working aids You should check with experts in the field search the literature check the state-ofthe-art reports and then when all else fails try the following Telephone 4l69s T12l2 Reference library 5750s T1213 Technical library 8-8873s Pl6 L Language library NDSe NSA Data Standards Center -- for matters pertaining to P13D 8-87155 standardization Keep this list near your telephone and add to it as you discover other sources of information December 78 CRYPTDLDG Page 6 TOP SECREI' UMBRA U b 6 - DOCID 401170-2 eOl' 'lfiJi N'fIAL P-E-I I give up DO YOU SPELL PEKING P L T1223 ave you 'ever wondered about the many different ways for spelling the ame of the capital of the People's Republic of China PRC Should it be Pei-ching Peiching Peiping Pei-p'ing Pekin Beijing or Peking Within NSA today seven different spellings occur in the SIGINT On-Line Information System SOLIS Other spellings undoubtedly exist in other data bases Why all the different versions of the name Why isn't there one standard name you ask Why can't the matter be resolved once and for all The fundamental problem is not simple It involves a tangled web of Chinese history different systems for transcribing written Chinese characters into roman letters several languages of China and their many dialects the influence of foreign powers which once occupied portions of what is now Mainland China and established conventions of their own for spelling Chinese place names and last but not least the emergence of the PRC as a recognized force in world affairs Although the problem exists with many other Chinese geographic names the capital of the PRC serves as a vivid example The history of the city of Peking 1 is the story of at least six town sites designated by eight place names since the eighth century B C Chi was the first known town on the site of modern Peking followed by five others until the early fifteenth century when the name Pei-p'ing Northern Peace was changed to Pei-ching Northern Capital Pei-ching remained the imperial capital of China for almost 400 years In 1928 the Chinese Nationalists moved the capital to Nanklng but by 1949 Peking once again became the seat of government when it was proclaimed the capital of the PRC H IThe Western conventional spelling of the name is used throughout this article NSA CSS Geography and Map Library Conventional nonsystematic spellings of ChInese place names abound particularly in popular pub1i ations 'The reason is that ' practically any Chinese ideographic character can be rendered in several different roman spellings depending upon the transcription s stem used Moreover some of the transcriptIon sy s t_ems are more scientific than others and incorporate diacritical marks that are often omitted in popular publications But adding to the general confusion in specifically the case of Peking is that two different names that is two different sets of Chinese ideographs are rendered by different transcription systems The chart at the end of this article shows ten different spellings of the place name which occur frequently Wade-Giles Transcription With the opening of China to Westerners in the mid-nineteenth century there were efforts among missionaries and scholars to make written communication in the Chinese language more intelligible to the Western world The system devised by Sir Thomas Wade for rendering Chinese in roman letters was later used by Herbert A Giles in his Chinese-EngZish Dictionary of 1912 Since publication of that dictionary the Wade-Giles system for romanization has been the standard in the Eng1ishspeaking world although a few other systems also have had limited use Pinyin Transcription The writing system in prevalent use in China still consists of the traditional Chinese characters although several times since 1949 the PRC has simplified and reduced the number of characters in use Within the PRC the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system for Chinese has been under study since about 1952 It is based on the pronunciation of Chinese in the Peking or northern Mandarin dialect Pinyin romanization reached its present form December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 7 CONFIDENTIAL 86-36 DOCID _ 011 102 COHFIDBNTIAb in 1958 when it was adopted by the PRC as a means of aiding the spread of literacy in modern Chinese throughout China Chinese place names can be romanized from Chinese characters using either the Wade-Giles system or the Pinyin system but generally only in terms of the Peking pronunciation on which both systems are based Spread of Pinyin Within the PRe and Internationally The different names in current use for the city of Peking are typical of geographic name problems involving about three-fourths of the land area and 30 percent of the population of Mainland China About 5-7 percent of the total population of the PRC uses languages whiCh are not generally written in terms of Chinese ideographic characters These languages used in western and northwestern China extend over more than one-fourth of the area of the country The PRC government has introduced the use of separate roman script writing systems each different from Pinyin for the most widely used languages in those regions Uighur Mongolian Chuang and Tibetan However the PRC roman script form of place names is currently available for only a small number of the most prominent geographic features The standard Chinese language based on the Peking dialect is spreading rapidly among the approximately 30 percent of the population of China to whom it is a foreign language Although Chinese characters continue in prevalent use in the PRC roman script spellings -- in the form of Pinyin -- are being extended in use and according to a delegation of U S linguists which visited China in late 1974 progress is being made toward the final long-term PRC goal of replacing the traditional as well as the simplified ideographic characters At the Sixth Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names which met in New York in March 1975 a three-member PRC delegation described the expanding use of Pinyin in China in PRC international communications at Chinese railroad stations and on some maps and charts which English-speaking nations would have in any mass conversion to Pinyin The Chinese admitted that they too would have difficulties and indicated they had no firm schedule for completing their internal conversion The U S position on the use of Pinyin expressed through members of the U S Board on Geographic Names BGN remains essentially as it was at the time of the Athens conference Conversion can be anticipated when adequate names information is available from official PRC sources The U K and Canadian views are similar No one opposes the Chinese plan to employ Pinyin in China and no one over the long run opposes universal international use of Pinyin The problem is timing -- i f one is obliged to convert immediately to' Pinyin all the gazetteers 3 consisting of more than a quarter million geographic names given in Wade-Giles spellin s and to do it without adequate sources At present there are only two Pinyin sources one Chinese-produced small-scale map of the PRC containing 3 750 names in Pinyin and the 1977 edition of the Atlas of the People's RepublifJ of China -- Romaniaed Chinese Edition q -- Pinyin containing approximately 20 000 place names in Pinyin However for the large Chinese land area involving the minority languages of Uighur Tibetan and Mongolian the rules of transliteration pinyinization'i and current sources are not available to geographers outside China Therefore it is impossible to work out the Pinyin spellings of place names in those regions Interim Solution Both theoretical and practical aspects of standardization of Chinese place names are the serious concern of members of the U S Board on Geographic Names and its U K counterpart the Permanent Committee on Geographic Names for British Official Use PCGN If the Engiish-speaking world is forced to abandon suddenly one standard i e the Wade-Giles system before having sufficient geographicnames information with which to implement confidently the new standard i e the Pinyin system only chaos will result For the immediate future members of the BGN believe that they must continue to use the Wade-Giles system as a standard until such a time in the future when considerably more than the present 20 000 Chinese place names are available in In August 1977 the Third United Nations ConChinese sources using Pinyin In the interim ference on the Standardization of Geographical Names held in Athens voted almost unanimously2 where critical the BGN suggests use of dual names the Wade-Giles standard rendition in favor of a PRC resolution to accept the' Pinyin method of romanization as an international standard After the voting the 3The U S Board on Geographic Names Official U S and U K representatives met with the Standard Names Gazetteer of China 1968 two PRC delegation to discuss the difficulties volumes contains 108 000 geographic names all romanized by the Wade-Giles system The U K PCGN also uses similar gazetteers 2The United States and the United Kingdom 4Z HONGHUA RENMIlI GONGHEGUO FEN SHENG abstained only Guatemala voted No on the DITUJI--HANYU PINYINBAN resolution December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 8 CONFIBBNTIAb DOCID 4011702 CONFIBHNTIAL followed by the Pinyin equivalent enclosed within brackets for those place names given in the 1977 AtLas Admittedly this procedure is awkward but it is preferable to uncontrolled use of two separate systems or the complete abandonment of the old standard in exchange for a new and highly incomplete standard EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 Second Devise for use in existing NSA CSS data bases methods that will equate the variants spellings of geographic names for the identical populated place or geoR raphic featuX'e Today there are at least ten versions of the name of the capital of the PRC -- more than were used singly over the 2 800 years of Chinese historyl The chart below shows how easy it is to derive this large number of alternate spellings by using two systems for romanizing the two different sets of Chinese characters and then adding various foreign conventional forms and other spellings with or without diacritical marks So much for the problem and how it came to be How does one resolve or limit the problem First Adhere to the policy and recommendations on standard geographic names issued by the U S Board on Geographic Names This is mandatory under Public Law 242 80th Congress Fourth When in doubt about the standard approved version or proper spelling of geographic names within China or in any other country consult the specialists in the NSA CSS Geography and Map Library T1223 either in person or by phone -- Room lE145 5585s DIFFERENT SPELLINGS OF THE N OF THE CAPITAL OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA WITH NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES IN SOLIS EARLY 1978 SAMPLING Chinese characters with meaning t -- 4f Popular conventional spellings English Peking 1 1069 Spanish French Pekin 2 0 Approved spellings -u s BGN U K PCGN Official PRe spelling WadB-Gi les Pinuin Beijing 3 0 Pei-ching 3 Imitated pronunciation spe l lings wi th 01' without diacritics Peiching 4371 Bei-jing 3 0 Northern Capital d Peiping 1 84 Pei-p'ing2 0 Beiping 3 0 -- Northern Peace lSpellings originated under the Chinese Post Office System for converting Chinese geographical names on the international level and widely used during the first half of the twentieth century still used as the conventional forms in English-s eakin countries Qecember 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 9 CONFID NTM l Peip'ing 865 1 4 c SECRET SPOKE P L 86-36 P L 86-36 T124 eo _iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'-_------ 6 Solution to NSA-c olt o No 19 Answer to yrBWL PR CRYPTOLOG November 1978 o J ack Gurin Let's Hear It For Humans n Crypto logiaSpeatrum Fall 1977 Vol 7 No 4 To illustrate human factors engineering with a familiar exarnple you need look no further th n the automobile Serious acc idents have resulted when the driver while proceeding at high speed shuts off his headlights in the belief that he is just operating the cigarette lighter U EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 P L 86-36 CRYPTOLOG November 1978 December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 10 SBEURRBT SPOKE 1 o 2 3 5 U EOL4 DOCID 4011701 L 86-36 SEeRS' ' SPOKE P L 86-36 December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 11 SEURE'f SPOKE P L 86-36 EO 1 4 c DOCID 4011702 SECRET SPOKE THE EDITOR'S PACE IMOII 01 USSI - - No No Nanettel Means Yes' Iy A J S As the editor of a publication that prides innocent young thing who's never been itself on being highly-readable often collokissed I won't mention the fact that quial but always grammatical I- am sometimes you're always leaving thing dripping over surprised when people write letters to the the owe rack But one thIng I do want to editor carping about errors they have found mentlon IS the awful habIt you have of correcting me when I' m no t wrong I ' Does it surprise anyone to hear that there are other people who think a preposition is not a The world must be full of double-negative good word to end a sentence with Or to hear spotters because the Washington Star of 27 that some people object to sentences beginning March 1978 printed the following letter with or or and Well several months ago I As a teacher of anti-gobbledygook was surprised to get a copy of CRYPTOLOG cours 7s for government agencies I notice returned to me with one sentence underlined that In the last paragraph of your This is no radical concept that has never been 'business profile' on 'Grammarians Inc ' tried before The person returning the copy your reporter has Ms Shapiro c mmitting added a note Apparently inclusion of a not Just a doubZe negative but if I am by-line has not guaranteed error free writing not mistaken don't you just love those I believe a double negative has managed to weasel words a quadrupZe negative slip thru I have to admit that I sent back 'People really have no business not knowing a somewhat petulant note that mentioned how to write because there's not an weasel words such as apparently and also occupation in the entire world where a explained that having two negative words in competent knOWledge of language isn't one sentence does not make a double negative useful ' Atrue mind-boggier I 'Occupation Leaving out the snappish remarks this is where' is suspect too what I wrote What is truly mind-boggling is that in the The sentence 'This is no radical concept 12 April 1978 issue of the Star Ms Shapiro that has never been tried before' means exactly what John Mollick said -- it's not an instead of saying Well you are mistakenl agrees with the nut but blames the reporter' idea that hasn't been tried before it has who misquoted her Di cussing the severe been tried before -- his next sentences say shock that occurs upon witnessing the so 'A number of sister agencies have long transformation of one's spoken words into attached the names of their analysts to print Ms Shapiro states their products ' The 'quadruple negative' pointed lilut-by You seem note my weasel word to think Reader Mary Bradford is a composite f that there is something wrong with two several remarks made by both Ms Candage negatives in a sentence There's nothing nd me The opinion is ours the phrasing wrong if that's what you mean Take for IS not In sum we at Grammarians Inc example a nasty lawyer trying to discredit readily admit to a rare faux pas when the testimony of a young lady who is posing speaking however we assure you that when as a sweet innocent thing but who really has writing we are as close to infallibl as been through the wringer 'Ladies and Strunk and White could possibly desire gentlemen of the jury the witness is no innocent young thing who has never been Swinging back from the outside jungle to kissed ' That means she's been kissed -the world of CRYPTOLOG I want to give our and in fact the lawyer is casting aspersions on her reputation by using a literary readers this assurance They may sleep easily at night knowing that the members of the Board trick called 'litotes ' It's using of Editors are fully capable of spotting a true negatives to say what you want to say a double negative whenever they see one although sneaky trick akin to the use of weasel words 'I won't mention the fact that you they haven't seen none yet U lost my tennis racket I won't mention the fact that you told my boy friend She's no December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 12 SECRET SPOKE DOCID 4011702 UNCLASSIFIED I 12 PUBLICATIONS Lilt HI do not confu til wltll pom - a ular pal'1 1514 of tll ob SOME TIPS ON GETTING PROMOTED Article based 'on talk given in April 1978 to WIN Women in NSA romotion The word inevitably stirs response of some kind in every redblooded NSA employee hope pleasure challenge despair frustration disappointment even inertia resentment resignation Despite disparate views on promotion most people share -- openly or secretly -- a common desire to be promoted And many also share I think a common lack of understanding about the promotion process here at NSA and a lack of knowledge about the part they play in it This article mainly addresses promotions to grades 13 through 15 and discusses two subjects which are fundamental to those promotions -- Personnel Summaries and Promotion Files Both are critically important to you the employee because they are critically important to the promotion process here at NSA Witness these two points o yOW' Promotion Pi 1 e zoepresents you to a pl'OTnotion boaI'd and o you pezosonaUy lJ1I'ite on1 y one document in that fi 1 e -- yoU ' Pel'sonne 1 Surmm'y Promotion Fiies described in this article are the ones regularly kept only for people of grades 12 through 14 for use by the three N5Awide Boards that handle promotions for grades 13 through 15 These Promotion Files are described in the final section of this article Promotions below grade 13 are handled by local organizations whose practices vary on maintenan e of personnel files and their use in the promotion process Personnel Summaries on the other hand are important to everyone regardless of grade For grades 12 through 14 the formal promotion process requires that every Promotion File hence every Personnel Summary be reviewed during every promotion cycle For grades up through 12 some local promotion boards use them as well I recently chaired a local promotion board in my parent organization 51 and we routinely reviewed Personnel Summaries of grades 2 through 11 each time we met Personnel Summaries have still other uses for overseas assignments for transferring to a new job for some types of training Whenever in fact official information on you and your career is needed the Personnel Summary may be used The first and major part of this article presents tips on how you should write your all-important Personnel Summary The ideas in this article are my own 1 am not an expert on personnel matters and do not mean to appear to'be Though I am currently P P L DATE CRYPTOLOG Dec 1978 serving on the Agency Grade 14 Promotion Board my experience there has simply confirmed longheld impressions and reinforced my belief about the critical importance of the two topics covered in this article Pel'sonne 1 SU I'ma1'ies Many consider Personnel Summaries to be the bane of their existence Some don't take them seriously Others fill them out casually And most of us write them because we're forced to Whatever you feel about Personnel Summaries you should recognize why a Personnel Summary is important who is responsible for filling it out when it should be filed and how to get it filed Why Impol'tant Why is your Personnel Summary important Because it is an essential document in your Promotion File the one that describes your complete NSA life your jobs your accomplishments your training your awards It is no secret what things are deemed desirable for promotion The information you provide in your Personnel Summary constitutes a list of the very things judged important when selecting people for promotion to any grade Your Promotion File represents you to the Board it is one of the most important sources of information about you available to them Board members cannot be expected to have personal knowledge of you in a large Agency like NSA True if you are fortunate enough to be nominated for promotion then a written reco en- dation about your accomplishments and qualifications is included in your Promotion File Otherwise yoU ' Personne1 SUmmary is it Since every Promotion File contains one and you write it it is your chance to describe what you have done No one knows it better And if you do not say it it may not get said at all Who Is Responsib1 e Who is reponsible for your Personnel Summary You arel You are responsible for filling it out initially within 90 days after promotion to grade 12 through 14 and then for updating it Do not expect your office to remind you It is your responsibility Though Personnel Summaries are not required for them lalso urge people in grades below 12 to fill out Personnel Summaries and to update them peri odically Get into the habit now for it is easier to do it routinely and gradually than suddenly in one big lump when you do become a 12 Also I think it shows supervisors that December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 13 UNCLASSIFIED 86-36 UNCLASSIFIED 4011702 'are pe on of initiative with serious write a Personnel Summary These are my personal ideas and some people -- even you -- may When to FiZe not agree with them So be it But I hope to stimulate you to think seriously about Personnel As I mentioned in the previous paragraph Summaries and to try to help you to write a you are required to update your Personnel Sumbetter one My aim is to give you a start and mary within 90 days after promotion to grades 12 through 14 I recommend you also do it whenever hope that you will take it from there a major event occurs such as when you transfer My best general advice is to be succinct to a new organization or job become a superSay what you have to say briefly concisely visor or assume major new duties receive a ma- and clearly Do not write the Great American jor award professional certification or educaNovel and ramble on for 20 pages On the other tional degree Otherwise plan to do it ann al1y hand avoid being too brief and selling yourself in synchrony with the promotion board cycles short I am surprised at the number of people Currently the grade 13 Board meets four times who write one-liners Do not try to upstage a year the grade 14 and 15 Boards meet twice Agatha Christie and write a mystery story but If your updated Personnel Summary is in your avoid too much excruciating detail Write your fiZe by I January or 1 July you will satisfy Personnel Summary so that a busy person who is all Boards Since PTomotion Boards are apreading hundreds of Promotion Files can underpointed for a calendar year I recommend Janu- sta d and appreciate it quickly and you hope ary I simplify updating my own Summary by be mpressed enough to single out your file for special consideration following a practice I use to keep track of income tax deductions whenever anything of Personnel Summaries are written on Form importance occurs I jot it down on a slip of P3267 REV Feb 76 which is available in your paper with the date and stick the paper into a office or from the NSA Supply Room The first file When the time comes to update I have page contains seven items Fig 1 shows the all the information at hand and the job is first four nearly done Tips on Haw to Write a Personnel Summary The following paragraphs describe ways to elt'er tfttentlons '''' - t ''t AS OF da N AM E a It appear on offleID Ncord LGot an capt ' ktt Dec 1978 Smith 2 EMPLOYEE IDI NTIP'ICATION SSN tint mlddk Jane Anne CIVILIAN v aro 123-45-6789 12 Fig 1 The As of date ShOllld never be over a the dates changed -- the correction tape over year old Some files contain Personnel Sumthe date is obvious in the reproduced copy maries so ancient that the paper has turned This is often done and rightly so to save yellow An out-of-date summary raises some retyping when there are no major changes to rerather unflattering -- to you -- questions in port But what if there aPe il1lportant changes the mind of the reader Are you lazy Are you in your job and you don't record them Look so disorganized you cannot remember to update below at Item 6 Experience Fig 2 taken it Don' you care from a supposedly current Personnel Summary One sees many Personnel Summaries with only 6 NSA CSS OR SCA CIVILIAN EXPERIENCE GRAOE TITLE fie Chw Data St01llcfJ' Equipment Dfvla'on ff non' u Job title re ctad on 3J 60 OATE OF ACTION AGENCV ORGANIZATION A CURRENT ASSIGNMENT FlJllct OnallJob Tltk SF6 OT Traffic Analyst 12 Jan 1976 B111 12 Apr 1970 B9 5 Jun 1958 ALLO o TITLI Opr LAST OMOTION Traffic Analyst C INITIAL ASSIGNMENT Analyst hg 2 December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 14 UNCLASSIFIED ---------'-----'-- - ------------ _ _ _ _ DOCIO 4011702 _ _ UNCLASSIFIED To the eye Item 6 in Fig 2 looks fine However this person is no longer a Traffic Analyst in Bill He has transferred to a new job -- a supervisory one -- and he is now Chief Processing and Analysis Division X35 But how i8 the Boapd to know The problem is magnified if this person is nominated for promotion The documentation that accompanies the nomination describes the person's OUPpent job with the result that the two documents the nomination and the Personnel Summary -- do not match How does that look to a Board Again what does it say about you and your sense of responsibility When listing your current job title in i Item 6 be sure to use the functionaZ job title I if you have one For example D Chief Data Storage Division Project Manager for XXXX Russian Language Instructor Otherwise use job titles as shown on the form Now let's go back to Item 5 your educational record Fig 3 5 EDUCATION LIr Cmo N n t b tTaI' ' nlo r ' uf a J oG3k DEGREE ' award d Irot MAJOR FIELD J r t ' onooo NlIllt University of Maryland MA 20 credits International Relations 1976-78 Nights Armed Forces Staff College Diploma -- 1975 University of Maryland Cum Laude Phi Beta 'Inn Honors in Hi torv Anne Arundel COJlllllunity Collelre Rn d Hi ah School BA Assoc History and Political Science History 1971-1973 1960-71 IHnlnm C'nl AnA D n Qh Fig 3 List these in reverse chronological order with the most recent first Include all education for which you earned a degree and use Diploma to indicate completion of a joint or service school Also include substantial work toward another degree If any of these took extended time indicate why 0' 7 COMMENDATI Com_nelGHa fro' C as Nights And I suggest you state any graduation honors here to highlight them Item 7 Commendations and Awards should also be in reverse chronological order Fig 4 shows some examples of the kinds of things to include 0' -JOr orftori CI _ Sorvko A rdoo Oul4tandl Po o A J lI OalI o lto or Ilqltcr Llrt _ t t f nt tt Letter of Appreciation Chief A Level 7 Performance Rating Outstanding Performance Ratings QSI SSWP Meritorious Civilian Service Award NCS Teacher of the Year First Prize CLA Essay Contest NSA Scholarship DATE 1978 1977 1975 73 69 1974 1968 1965 1960 1959 1958 Fig 4 Include Letters of Appreciation only if they are from an Office Chief or higher for grades below 12 I think this rule may be relaxed and ge_$UTe that copies of such letters are in your Promotion File List level-7 performance ratings but not level-6 Also list any special Agency awards or scholarships you may have received Professionalization certifications belong in Item 16 and extra- curricular activities should be entered in Item 14 -- do not include them here Page 2 of Form P3267 contains two item At the top Item 8 provides space for summar z ng your Current Assignment Fig 5 Begin this paragraph by giving your functional job title the name 'of your immediate organization date of appointment and names of ascending key organizations 8 SUMMARY OF CURRENT ASSIGNMENT D Chief Support Staff Z13 Office of Facilities Zl Computer Services Organization Z Since April 1973 Mrs Jones has been Tesponsible for managing o Fig 5 December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 15 UNCLASSIFIED DOCID 4011702 UNCLASSIFIED Then list your major responsibilities following these recommendations o Use narrative style not outline form o Use complete sentences o Use third-person forms not I was responsible for oo but Mrs Jones was responsible for o Note that your supervisor's signature is required in Item 8 as verification Item 9 at the bottom of page 2 is the Summary of All Previous Civilian and Military Service of a Cryptologic Nature This is probably tpe most difficult part of the form to fill out The longer your career the more you have to tell about If there is not enough space provided in Item 9 to hold all the information requested you should use as many additional plain sheets as necessary l beling each with your name SSN and page number This is likely to be the longest section so it is important to try to make it clear and readable You do not have to be an accomplished writer or even to have any special writing skill Just be direct factual and as concise as possible Follow instructions given above for Item 8 use narrative style complete sentences third-person forms In addition follow these suggestions '0 o Use ahI'ono logiaa l order Begin with oldest assignment and end with most recent Note that this is not reverse chronological order as in some of the other items o Use one paragraph per job o Start paragraph wi th vital in forma tion dates functional job title immediate organization and up o Identify organizations projects systems etc Notice that I said to identify organizations projects systems etc Otherwise you end up writing a mystery story like this one From August 1960 to January 1964 Mr Smith was Chief of A13 where he was responsible for managing all aspects of Project SUCHNSUCH He also provided technical assistance to several important systems under study by another division XYZQ and ABCJ The only really clear thing in thIS paragraph is the date Who remembers what A13 was in the early 1960s What in heaven's name was SUCHNSUCH What were systems XYZQ and ABCJ And so on How much clearer and how much more professional if this had been written instead Fig 6a SUMMARY 01' AL L 'UlV'OUS C'V'L IAN AND MIL ITAIIY VICE 01' A CIIYO'TOL OGlIC NATUIIE L'd In n%flcol llel' w't okN t o 16 n t o d 1Id wit t nt 'ndlcot Io n ' motlonell ol tltr oIId dotoo o 'r From August 1960 to January 1964 Mr Smith was Chief qf the Nonesuch Reporting Division A13 in the Office of Overall Reporting AI in the General Analysis and Reporting Group A He was responsible for managing all aspects of Project SUCHNSUCH fUll-text automation of Nonesuch reports and provided technical assistance to several important systems under study by another division XYZQ system for automating and ABCJ system for Fig 6a If you wish you may use a space-saving format with an offset header for dates jobs o I and followed by a colon and and a list as in Fig 6b organi ations SUMMARY 0 AL L P EVloua CIVILIAN AND MILITARY ooo Vle OF A CRYPTOLOGIC NATU llel' It _d IIn nt ortd 1Id wit moot nt 'lid Jo- ' tlonoll ol tltr ond dot Lu' ' elironolo 1eG1 onur August 1960 to January 1964 Chief Nonesuch Reporting Division A13 Office of Overall Reporting AI General Analysis and Reporting Group A Mr Smith was responsible for managing SUCHNSUCH full-text automation of Nonesuch reports all reporting on o and providing technical assistance to another division on several important systems such as XYZQ system for automating and ABCJ system for Fig 6b These may seem like small things to you but they have a big impact on improving the read ability of your Personnel Summary You do want people to read it don't you As the final test I recommend that you ask a friend to read your Personnel Summ y critically to I December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 16 UNCLASSIFIED ---tD M-GG I D 4011702 UNCLASSIFIED see if it is indeed clear and to the point Preferably that friend should pretend that you are not a friend but a complete stranger who wants to know everything about you Does your Personnel Summary present you as a clear-wri ting and presumably clear-thinking forceful direct person or as an imprecise vague person carrying out i'various unexplained duties Rewrite your Summary and especially Item 9 until anyone who reads it -- not just your friends who have known you for years -- can get a clear picture of what you have done and why you are promotable Page 3 of the form contains four items the top three of which are often ignored -- or so it seems when they are so frequently left blank Field Assignments Related Experi- ence and Publications If you have per-_ tinent information on any of these put it 1n For Item 10 Field Assignments Fig 7 be sure to give both the organizational and functional titles and the inclusive dates These items are in peVepse chronologcal order Incidentally regular updating of Personnel Summaries seems to be a special problem for people assigned to the field Their Personnel Summaries are rarely updated while they are away from Fort Meade FANX and consequently the promotion boards often have no knowledge whatever about what the person is doing during an important 2- or 3-year period I urge people to file yearly updated Personnel Summaries while they are on field assignments 10 CRYPTOLOGIC COMMUNITY FIELD ASSIGNMENTS CONUS 1Id 0 116 L ot mo t 'c t 't FUNCTIONAL JOB TITLE LOC TION l ORG NIZ TION F06 F99 F17 Station Chief Engineer Analyst Timbuck Eden Nowhere DATES 1975-78 1969-72 1965 Jan-Mar Fig 7 For Item 11 Other Civilian Hilitary Experience Fig 8 include those things that show you possess skills that may apply to your I NSA job such as teaching managing and organizing These are also in reverse chronological order For example 11 OTHER CIVILIAN MILITARY EXPERIENCE WHICH MAY SE RELATED TO AN NSA CSS OR SCA POSITION ORGANIZATION LOCATION FUNCTIONAIJJOB TITLE OATES Army Reserve G W Univ Summer Camp Ft Meade Md Washington D C rlington Va Platoon Leader Lecturer in Computer Science Director 1971 to present 1968-1970 1965 Fig 8 Essay Contests Learned Organizations -Item 12 is Publications Fig 9 I am CMI CLA CM disappointed that SO few files list any publiCISI Spring Conference cations Since publications ape included in Cryptologic History Series the Personnel Summary NSA must consider writNCS courses ing to be an important skill Managers for Informal Agency newsletters such as example spend a lot of time writing And SOLIS Newslettep and the previously good writing comes from practice Fortunately published Bits and Bytes Drogon Seeds for us NSA offers many opportunities to pubKeyuJOpd Qua1'teply Revielil fop Linguists o lish If you have been looking for places to express your views here they are The editors of all these publications welcome your contributions Try to have some pubNSA Teahniaal Journal lished works and major reports though not Cryptologia Speatrum regular ones produced as part of your job to list on your Personnel Summary It just may CRYP TOLOG help to attract attention to your File Field Information Lettep I I 12 PUBLICATIONS fL t tltla do not cOIIf_ tllJl wnlt JJOffl p parwd 116 a ular part o '''' lob OATE Project SUCHNSUCH -- A Personal View -- article based on talk given CRYPTOLOG in April 1978 to Computer and Information Sciences Institute CISI Dec 1978 Fig 9 December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 17 UNCLASSIFIED DOCID 4011702 UNCLASSIFIED The next three sections all part of Item 13 and education not already listed in Item 5 on the form are meant to show Highlights in Courses taken at NSA belong here Follow the the Area of Self Development in your profesexample apd identify the courses by title and si6nal life -- past present and future The Course number In the rightmost column you format is the same for all three sections can indicate things like Top student or Fig 10 gives some exanples for A Past special honors You can leave this column List here the things that are completed such blank if nothing applies a past membership in professional societies 13 HIGHLIGHTS IN THE AREA OF SELF DEVELOPMENT SUBJECT SOCIETY I- Q Zeta Eta Eta French Honorary MS-lll Briefing Skills MG-444 Management Analysis CMI co ChroNolo' Uy lot 01 fo ' NSA CSB SCA Ieve' or t ltnl ouroo - prof ulo ' o letle Ex luM tho for whl h 0 d llY woo lIItary or lvIIlGN a w n ao b r hlp IN e1th r NSA CSS SCA or awarded ub ou Nt t DATES PLACE fro - to DURATION OR LENGTH DEGREE -- President 196 7 A Top student Member University NSA 1965-68 1968 49 hrs S NSA NSA 1971 120 hrs 1971-present -- -- -- SPECIALTY OFFICE HELD -- Plg 10 The first two items on page 4 the last page of the form are B Present and C Future highlights in your self-development sections not reproduced here These sections are to be filled out in the same manner as A Past Future plans might include such things as your plans to attain another specified certification change career fields join a professional society Item 14 14 O her vides space for showing your self-development in your nonprofessional life Many people leave this blank If you do I think you are missing a big opportunity to provide a rounded picture of yourself to the Promotion Board If you are active in areas like those listed below I encourage you to list them Show by your non-job-related activities that you have Achievements Fig 11 pro- other interests -- and other talents P 'H ' R H 'Ya M J c1 G rk 'J UJ 1t1 ft g rtrnt ' u' 't o' ''' 1n srrl ACTIVITY INCLUSIVE DATES NSA Civilian Welfare Council Credit Union GEBA NSA Jazz Band Travel Club United Givers Fund Campaign Community Church Scouts recreational activities civic associations PTA of your _ d dutfeo CAPACITY IN WHICH SERVINGISERVED 1967-1969 1970-1973 1976-present 1970-present 1972-present 1977 B Group Member Member Member Member Keyman representative Board of Governors Board of Directors President 1976-78 B Group Provide appropriate information 'I Fig 11 Item 15 not reproduced here provides space for you to list your job-related or self-improvement Reading Achievements -in-house publications professional journals foreign-language material Please do not list your pleasure reading especially not Playboy Board members have seen that one so often they are weary of it Professionalization certifications are to be listed in Item 16 Fig 12 If you have more than one be sure to list them all with the dates awarded If you are about to receive still another note this in parentheses as shown 16 PROFESSIONALIZATION Lilt proto o cerllfloJtloN CERTIFICATION CERTIFYING PANEL lSI TITLE DATE Cryptanalyst Education and Training Officer Traffic Analyst Lack only Part 3 of PQE for certification -scheduled to take test in Nov 77 12 Jun 1970 1 Sep 1973 Cryptanalysis Career Panel Education Career Panel Fig 12 December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 18 UNCLASSIFIED POCIC 4011702 UNCLASSIFIED Finally sign the form date it and affix the proper security classification Take this last responsibility seriously and do it carefully seeking help from experts if you need it Underclassifying or overclassifying looks bad to a Board because Boards expect that by grade 12 you should know how to classIfy correctly or know where to find help Instructions for filling out Personnel Summaries are contained in the NSA Personnel Management Manual Chapter 302B Jul 76 which every major office has Your own office will handle the filing of your Personnel Summary for you It will reproduce multiple copies of it some for retention in local organizational files one for you and for grades 12 through 14 some for sending through channels to your Promotion File in M3 Promotion Files Promotion Files are not to be confused with Personnel Files often called 201 Files ' The Office of Personnel specifically M3 maintains both There is an official Personnel File for every NSA employee It documents all formal activity in connection with your NSA life hiring performance appraisals training job or organizational changes etc There are official Promotion Files only for employees in grades 12 through 14 Local organizations often maintain abbreviated versions of the 201 File on all their employees and some may also keep a Promotion Fiie Official Promotion Files are the files that are being discussed here - - the files IAseci-bythe three Agency Promotion Boards when considering people for promotion to grades 13 through 15 I am going to tell you what should be in Pro 1241 o Personnel Sununary current within QIle year o Certification documentation in the fom of a computer printout or a letter 'from the certifying Panel o Recommendation for promotion from Key Component if you are recommended Since Promotion Files are shown to yo u intact with nothing removed you can see the recommendation on you if there is one or know you are not currently being recommended if there is not In addition your Promotion File should contain for your current grade only information from previous grades is purged o Performance appraisals o Inventory of Attributes If you are a 12 or above this is part of your official Performance Appraisal However you may never have seen it or even know it exists because until recently it was a private document and was generally not shown to employees Nowadays the sheet is green but it used to be yellow and many files still contain copies of yellow sheets Fig 13 shows the form for the Inventory of Attributes Rating is on a scale of 00 through 99 and space is provided on the right for narrative comments Like the information in a Personnel Summary the items in the Inventory of Attributes A Inno I I _oo Conailler ho ell the illdl'tldual provides problem lytlolll OWl jnpnuitJ od creativiry comp eJe work faller and pioneers 1ft Illiottitlland more accurately ' 11 1251 motion File how you can make arrangements to see yours and how you can update it Your Promotion File should contain _ric'''' ' II EIf ctl noo In wit _pia Con_er how wen rhe individual meeCf and with others hitlher effectivene in estab iahlnt'and maintalnlnl workinl relarionships wirh feets subofdlnates and jlmriIois a 26 C Drlva and Inltllt' Consider the extent to which the individual demonstrares attributeslUch as orcc fullness aggrellivene and en hUlia m 1271 D 'rsonal C et otItlos Consider all perlOnal characrerisrics uthey ffeetthe indiYidual'sjob performance H ' II9 1301 o E Sulljact rnatt r knO_d Conoid the individual's depth and breath ofknowlodllClSnd skUIa required at his her pre nt and next hiJher grade F Advanoamant putanill Consider how the indiYidual compare with otbe for ad ncement ro a position of grearer responsibiliry and his her overall capability for progression wirhin the career field Fig 13 December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 19 UNCLASSIFIED DOCID 4011702 UNCLASSIFIED constitute a list of some of the most import ' ant things in this case personal qualities judged desirable for determining a person's promotability You may be concerned about the inevitable unevenness among supervisors' ratings on Performance Appraisals and Inventories of Attributes Promotion Boards have access to detailed information large computer runs about all raters This information shows them who the hard raters and who the easy raters are and helps the Boards to normalize the ratings o Peer group ranking was used in 1976 only o Individual Career Appraisal and Development Plan This was a formal part of the performance appraisal in 1975 only Since then it is required only for major events such as transfer or promotion or upon request by you I encourage you to file an updated one annually even if it means only that you review and confirm last year's At the very leas it as- sures you a regular career-planning session with your supervisor and demonstrates your continuing sincere interest in a career o Laudatory and commendatory correspondence Ordinarily these are to be from Office level or higher But if you have something noteworthy you would like to include send a copy to M35 and let them decide AGENCY ENCOURAGES SUMMER LANGUAGE STUDY Dan Buckley M03 f you are in a language job and haven't seen Personnel Management Bulletin PMB 13-78 22 August 1978 you might want to ask your admin people about it The PMB describes a program under which rhe Agency continues to pay your salary while you attend an intensive summer language school Middlebury etc The Agency does not pay tuition travel or other costs -- you have to pay them The program is aimed at but not limited to Level-2 Language and Voice Language Technicians who are willing to take on some of the expense of upgrading their skill s Essentially you must show a job-related need for the training and get managerial approval but there are certain prerequisites Check out thePMB talk to your boss and if you qualify talk to the External Training people at the National Cryptologic School 8047s You will have to take care of applications acceptances etc yourself so it is not too early to plar for summer af 1979 Call me i f I can help I The I e per 0l f Promotion Files is Miss in M32 To review your proAudrey motion 1 e call her on 319ls and make an appointment to see her in Room 05081 You may talk to her about adding items to your file if you notice that something is missing And if you disagree with something in your file or think it is incorrect call her attention to it Depending on what it is she may suggest that you discuss the matter with your supervisor and then advise you about the possibility of your ins rting something in the file to explain your views as is usually allowed M3 encourages you to look at your Promotion File and welcomes your help in keeping it up to date and complete In conclusion two points already mentioned sum up the main ideas with which I would leave you o YOUP Promotion Fil represents you o You write yoUP Personnel Summary Improve your promotabilityl Increase your chances of getting promoted by making sure that your Promotion File is complete and that your Personnel Summary is up to date and clearly written It's up to you Upd you' P onnel$umm y nOw nd ii it by 1 J'nu'tyl - ' -It WERE YOU BORN ON ONE OF THESE DATES March 13 19 20 June 18 23 24 October 19 P L 86-36 Iwrites If you were born on one o- f 't h-e-s-e-d a- t -e- s and also if you are a resident of Maryland or Michigan I need your help in preparing an article for CRYPTOLOG Please call me on 7589 or 4427s and we can get together The reason for this ill become clear in a future issue of CRYPTOLOG U December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 20 UNEURUSSIFIED DOCID 4011702 UNCLASSIFIED TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Lou Grant 05 m he other day my secret ary asked me how she should address a memo 'In a fit of frustration I told her To Whom It May Concern Sure I was being flip about the whole thing but I don't need another example of the traumatic times we are in as far as dealing with the rest of the Community goes Nor am I optimistic about any rapid improvement in the situation It has been almost two years since President Carter announced th t he had directed a full-scale review of the Intelligence Community He stressed consolidation and streamlining There w e high hopes that at long last some beneficial changes would come about There were drea ofa simplified structure of straightforward procedures and clear-cut authority It took a year to see once again those hopes and dreams destroyed as the powers that be thrashed about writing a new Executive Order You can just imagine the amount of debating that went into that Order As usual the traditional les of an objective review were invoked t e first being to choose up sides and $et llP'th perimeter defenses That way each of he players gets to defend his territorial interests while he nibbles away at those of the oth rs This time the players prov f themselves to be worthy opponents indeed In fact they were so good they argued every issue to a dead standstill None of the empires crumbled no torches were passed In short nothing was accomplished So in the tranquil aura of their newly affirmed allegiance each to himself they took up the task of defining what to tell the President After all a Presidential Review has to lead to something Now any good cook knows that after you stir the pot you can either take something out or you can add more of something Since the players had agreed that none of them would lose anything they added to the pot But they were very careful to flesh things out evenly so as not to upset the delicate balance of forces that had survived the T -- prolonged debates The Director of Central Intelligence DCI got a National Foreign Assessment Center NFAC a National Intelligence Tasking Center NITC and some additional controls over money etc Department of Defense got an Assistant Secretary for Communications Command Control and Intelligence an Under-Secretary for Policy and certain other options The National Security Council got a more flexible committee structure The National Foreign Intelligence Board got an expanded membership And not to be outdone the Senate and the House both strengthened their new Intelligence Committees As you can see a well-flavored pot fit for the Presidential palate And please him it did With the stage set the next step was to choose the cast of characters For the most part that has been done Each of the new seniors has been issued at least one office a series of titles to choose from and matching stationery for each combination They are now in the throes of selecting their supporting casts so they can decide what it is that their organization is going to do and where it is to be located It shouldn't take much over another year to finish this phase In the meantime we have to continue dayto-day business under the added burden of this new structural overlay I'll say one thing you learn something new every day You send a memo to one organization and the response comes from another You get a request from a fairly high-level authority followed shortly by instructions from someone else not to answer it Correspondence comes in from a new organization under serial numbers of an old one which has never legally been dissolved You send a memo to someone using his new title and he signs the response using his other new title some have three Got the idea A procedural pightmare It can take days to do what a few phone calls used to accomplish Now let me see who do I submit this article to anyway December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 21 UNCLASSIFIED DOCIO Oll U2 UNCLASSIFIED NSA crostic No 20 The quotation on the next page ruas taken from the published lUO l'k of an NSA-e l' The firat lette l'a of the WORDS spell out the autho l a name and the title of the lUO l'k By David H Williams P16 DEFINITIONS WORDS A Dragon slain by Siegfried B Poor little ----- smallest of the fortyeight 2 wds C See Word L 2 wds D What according to Danny Kaye an unemployed j ester is The Court Jester 2 wds E The former Mrs Bono and her clone 4 wds F Person for whom something is named G Recent film with Word 0 for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor 2 wds H Film for which Word 0 won the Academy Award for Best Actor 2 wds followed by Word Z I Pertaining to light produced by chemical action physiological process or friction J oBurning of a heretic comp K Necessary money L One of Word O's early films in which he is killed numerous times 2 wds followed by Word C M Wickedness -5- 171 162 223 101 176 N Symbol of New York City's political machine 2 wds O British film actor on screen since 1933 1914 3 wds sr 112 144 190 ill 35 90 55 13 169 69 24 220 ii i II P - - -percha Q Noontime sign on the door at Cape Kennedy 3 wds R Rise above excel S Indian dwelling T Relating to the supernatural abstruse U Thief rascal Yiddish slang V Pleasure 219 94 210 6S 99 191 60 123 December 78 o CRYPTOLOG o Page 22 UNCLASSIFIED ---as DOCID 4011702 UNCLASSIFIED W One side in a sports event X Not in view wow 3 wds Y Drug intended to produce mood elevation Z See Word H 3 wds 1 Q 2 F 15 R 6 T o I 29 D 5 M 6 J 7 D 8 L 9 E 10 X 11 B 12 Z 13 N ' ' ' 14 E 19 Z 20 H n lZ L 25 R 26 C n f 33 0 34 B 35 N i Mtij 23 B 124 N 38 Q 39 Z 49 E 41 C 4B E 49 B 150 P 51 F 52 R 53 0 f 61 K 166 D 67 K 75 J 79 R 3 3 K a 17 G 18 31 0 32 E i i 43 Z 4 L 45 0 146 U 147 C 57 K p8 J 59 C 60 70 Q '1 0 '2 K 173 Z 74 84 1B5 v 'l lb X 'l l7 i 0 99 V 8 li 97 P v - p 36 Y 37 J H u Il ll l 00 B l l9 t 90 N LUO X 11Ul M 11U2 0 LU3 Y 91 L 04 E 105 L 92 T Z 55 N 56 B 69 N BO D i lt J 8 E 81 M 82 Z 83 Y 94 V 95 0 96 I 06 R 107 I 108 D oo ooooooooo o % 1l09 o ooooooooo I - w 26 U 127 D ' 128 A 129 S 1130 K 131 x X 1142 1 1l4j V 124 E ' ' ' ' ' ' ' o' oo o o oo oo o 136 R 1137 Q 138 N 1139 S 14U U 141 P3 32 H 133 S 134 C 1135 W ' ' ' ' o o o U 110 D o 119 I 120 F 121 H 122 R o ' ' 25 G Q 12B Z 54 t g c - I-44 N l45 B 146 L 147 E 148 G 149 U 1150 Q i 151 I 52 S 153 J ' Z 154 B 155 R 156 G 1157 X ' ' 158 JPY Z 59 Q 160 I 161 0 162 M 63 G 164 C 175 L 176 M 177 U 178 W 179 D 180 C 181 I 182 X 183 Q 184 Z 185 0 86 E' ' ' 187 A 188 X 189 T 203 Q 204 T 205 A 206 P % K 207 A 208 X 209 Y ' ' ' 10 V 211 I 212 Z 213 F 214 0 215 E Solution next month December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 23 UNCLASSIFIED - -- - r- ow ' un oy IDe urlgioator DOCID 4011702 SECRE SPOKE 1978 INDEX This index of the artides published in Vol ume v 1978 of CRYPTOLOG shoul d be used in aonjunation with the fol l owing previousl y publ ished indexes CUMULATIVE INDEX Vo1s I through III 1974-1976 -- separate publication 1977 Index Vol IV 1977 -- pp 17-21 of December 1977 issue of CRYPTOLOG The index is in two parts The first part is an index of titl es listed al phabetiaal l y 1 by titl e and 2 by keyword in the titl e A few titl es have al so been assigned keywords that do not appear in the titl es The seaond part is an index of authors In both parts rnuUipl e entries are listed in ahronol ogiaal order Items appearing in the Jul y-August doubl e issue are indiaated by Jul 78 86-36 Titles A ABNER Equipment Mainten ance on ABNER Accentuate the Negative Agency Summer Language Study a k a Sam And-a You Betta Have Moti-vayshi ARCHIVES Never Again Never on my Watch 8 Back to Square One Bodyguard of Lies Book Review BOOKBREAKERS Bookbreakers Forum Linguistics and the Code Reconstructor The Bucky Balance But Why Do We Do It c Jun 78 Apr 78 ay eM News CALLSIGNS Call signs and WARC 79 TA Implications of FCC hoposaf o1 _ - - - I Oct 78 Gurin Jun 78 Nov 78 I C A R' 'E ER - F ' 'IE L - D S----- _ J The Changing Face of NSA Jun 78 Apr 78 Pattie Tinsley D o V V Oct 78 Jan 78 J un 78 Nov 78 Jul 78 Jan 78 Feb 78 M ellick W E S 0 Anon D -T L -i-i-e- e-t-oI- - i - - -t a- -nl ' - - J News toe A VIP Tour through the Attic of NSOC Feb 78 COMPlITERS Remedial Software Engineering A Computer Scratch Pad at Home or at Work Data Security and Human Error COMSEC Bodyguard of Lies Book RevieW lCanoees Bien la Geografla Apr 78 CRITIC Test WEDDING BELLS and That 01 Gang of Mine Nov 78 CRYPTANALYSIS The Man Who Broke Purple Book Reviewi-_ _- Looking at Mr CRYFTOSYSJEMS Jari 78 CRT D Anon Mar Jun Jun Jul Jul Dec 78 78 7B 78 78 78 Mar Sep 78 Filby Miller Isaac Lutwinia k D Nov 78 The Hand I s Not Quicker than the Eye A Linguist L Q ks at the Tube Letter toeditor-e JartiCle 8E JRF l Jan Apr May Jun Sep 78 78 78 78 78 Feb 78 Fennwatcher Mar 78 Mar 78 Apr 78 D E DATA Project lITENSIL TlleIlOO Data DictionarY Direc ory Data Security and HW1IaIt Error Data Standards lentlir A Dialogue Between M i User ail Dr Analysi DOUBLE NEGATIVES No No N n te lI Means Yf i An Early NSA Proposal for Dec 78 Oct 78 Sep 78 A Donkey in YO1 jr fIItiT Apr 78 P L Jan 78 Jan 78 Jun 78 Sep 78 Satellite P eroting December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 24 EO 1 4 c P L 86-36- t pr 78 Jun 78 Oct 78 Cant inuing Professional izatian COPES What Ever Happen ES Letter to editor -l---J'CoPES Letter to ditor - GilbertsQ letter Barrer Sep 78 Jun 78 Jan 78 CLUSTERING A Little PEP Talk A Dialogue B etween Ms User and Dr Analysis Jan 78 Sep 78 CRYF TOLOGIC Sel1 ior Military Cryptologic S upervisor Course Cel tic Languages Today The Changing Face of NSA How Do You Spell Peking Feb 78 May 78 May 78 Nov 78 Nov 78 COMINT COfoUNT COMSEC and Hilbert's Tenth Soviet COMlln' and the Civil War Jan-Nov 78 Cast a Double Shadow CLA CLA Buck Collection-Support TA is Not for Everyone Dec 78 Dec 78 j Buckley ' Meyer t J As I Was Saying Two Years Ago o ATA Letter to President Carter By-Lines Don't Cost -- They D CODE Linguistics and the Code Reconstructor SpaKE ---------- --- EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 Pattie D A'J S May 78 Oct 78 Nov 78 Nov 78 Mar 78 Dec 7B Jan 78 P L 86-36 8 -36 DOCID 4011702 86-36 Feb 78 Apr 78 F Feeding the Germans Misinformatio Book Review First Lady of Navy Cryptology FRIEDMAN Wil iam The Man Who Broke Purple Book Review Filby Oct 78 Feb 78 Filby Jan 78 I Formatting PL I Source Code M Nov 78 The Future of Cryptanalysis Lutwiniak The Man Who Broke Purple Book ReView May 78 MATHEMATICS Tel Me I'm Just a Sinobibliophobe G H A Matter of Style GeOGRAPHY LConoces Bien Is Geografla Know Your Geography lIow Do You Spell Peking Apr 78 Oct 78 Dec 78 GOLDEN OLDIES Unidentified Unit at Unknown Location Jun 78 The Hand Is Not Quicker Than the Ey Mar 78 H -s It Ever Been Translated Before Ho I j r A Method of Measuring Negative Intelligence MICROGRAPHICS Reduction Ratios in mcrographics Back to Square One MILITARY Senior Military Cryptologic Supervisors Course MINICO lPUTERS Jul 78 A Computer Scratch Pad at Home Dr at Work Dec 78 Do You Spell Peking Minnie's Mini K Dec 78 An Idea for an Article INTELLIGENCE A Method for Measuring Negative Intelligence INTERPRETATION The Unseen Go- Between Mil er lar 1 ' ' G u r i_n Mar 78 Is a Translator a Professional Jul 78 Tile Joys and Frustrations of Plural-Dropping Sa I e e May 78 Know Your Geography Oct 78 The Unseen Go-Between Uncle-a Sam Wantsa Youl As I Was Saying Two Years Ago Cel tic Languages Today Gu r i n I I Is a Translator a Professional Pattie J '1 f LETTERS TO EDITOR i Letter to editor W h l t h e r ' m m i Letter Letter Letter Letter Letter to to to to to I 1 '- __ Letter to edi tor - Pattie As 111'1 $' BuckIey What's In a Non-Name oo And-a You Betta Have Moti-vayslll 'Agency Summer Language Study Buckley _ I toffel r c oi t urkn r editor rticle ' ' editor anicle 11 _ 1 editor - Gilbertson letter arrer editor - Patti s Ji Was tt Buckley editor o salel lllle SYELL Williams EO 1 4 c December 78 P L 86-36 P L 86-36 Web 78 Feb 78 May 78 Jun 78 Jun 78 Jul 78 Sep 78 Sep 78 Oct 78 Dec 18 Jan Mar Apr JWI Jul Jul Sep Sep Sep Oct 78 Crowel Kenny JWI 78 Jun 78 Minnie I s Mini Kenny Jun 78 8utcher Filby Oct 78 Feb 78 78 78 78 78 78 7 8 78 78 78 Mar 78 Jul 78 OCt 78 May 78 NEGATIVE INTELLIGENCE A Method of Measuring Negative Intelligence Never Again Never On My Watch No No Nanerte eans Yes Gutin c J A J S No Winnie Y ou've Got It Side Dolin Too p A J S I NSA-Crostic NSA-Croshc NSA-Crostic NSA-Crostic NSA-Crostic NSA-CrQstic NSA-Crl stic NSA-Crpstic NSA-Cfostijc NSA-Crostic Jan 78 the Attaboy' Snow More B S Before Spellman More 8eans NSA- ROSiIe tor ct 78 N 'O Dec 78 Dec 78 ThInks D 0 MYCROFT The Joys of Unix Jan 7B The Joys of Unix LANGUAGE L e t t e r t o e dIilto r t Jbrjrticle Feb 78 _ Jan 78 78 OCt 78 1 FHby No No NO No No No No No NO 11 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 Williams A J S Williams Sardonyx A J S Williajns A J S II'Hliajns Williajns Williajns NO 20 Overheard in the Burnbag Line PEP A Littl PEP Talk PLURALS Thfi Joys and Frustrations of Pjpral Dropping I fBanis for the Attaboy I CRYPTOLOG Pilge 25 SECKEl' SPOJlt1 4 c 86 36 Oct 78 Jun 78 No 78 Dec 78 Feb 78 Sep 78 Jan Mar Apr May Jun Jul Sep Oct Nov Dec 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 Oct 78 CJ Apr 78 Salemme Jan 78 D Jun 73 Jan 78 O 2 DOC I D PRO ng 1 _86_-_3 6 SECRET Nov 78 - - -- 'I Sep 78 Project IJI'ENSIL The 000 Data Dictionary Directory PROJECT MANAGEMENT The Bucky Balance 1 -_ _ o e OVl et mera ta Soviet COMINT and the Civi' ' War ______________- 1---- -1 Sop 78 SPELLMAN Never Again I Remember SPELL lAN Letter to editor - S'alelllJle ' SPELLMAN More B S Before Spellman STANDARDS NSA Data Standards Center a k a Sam May 78 Jul 78 PROMOTION A Proposed Cure for the Performance Syndrome SOllie Tips on Getting Promoted Mar 78 Dec 78 r A Proposed Cure for the Performance Syndrome ll 1 Mar 78 o PURPLE The Man Who Broke Purple Book Review Filby Feb Mar Apr Apr Oct Oct 78 78 78 78 78 78 R RAGPIE By Why Do We Do It RECONSTRUCTION Linguistics and the Code Reconstructor Reduction Ratios in Micrographics g Remedial Software Engineering l REtollTING An Early NSA Proposal for Satellite Remoting Jan 78 o REPORTING A Matter of Style Nov 7B Oct 78 Apr 7B Blick Sn w Caron o I Nolte Jan 7S Kun z EO 1 4' p I sale Ol 9 1 I Remember SPELLMAN W P L B6-3 SATELLITES An Early NSA Proposal for Satellite Remoting SCREENWRITER A Linguist Looks at the Tube Letter to editor - Johnson article Horn c J Jan 78 Johnson Mar 78 Apr 78 T N c 7 8 Smith Apr 78 Dec 78 Dec 78 SJllith isbme Background on the CiT Merger SOllie Tips on Getting Promoted SOVIET 1 EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 0 Mar 78 Dec 78 Feb 78 78 78 Apr 78 May 78 j$ep 78 ov 78 Telephone Problem Here Tell Me I'm Just a Sinobibliophobe Thanks for the Attaboy Apr 78 jul 78 an 78 78 liec Grant To Whom It May Concern TRANSLATION Letter of ATA to President Carter Uncle-a Sam Wantsa You Has It Ever Seen Translated B fore TRIGRAPH Ye Gads I Another Country Trigraph System Tinsley oApr 78 o May 78 o Jul 78 'Jul 78 u V 1- ---_- Jun 78 Feb 78 oo Oct 78 0 Gurin IJI'ENSIL Project IJI'ENSIL The 000 Data Dictionary Directory l SOLIS Hgw Po Ypu Spell Peking Sep 78 feb A VIP Tour Through the Attic of NSOC SOFTWARE Remedial Software Engineering 78 j'un 78 Dec 78 Nov 78 Feb Sep 78 A Small Problem Feb 78 Pi Small Problem 78 Jul 78 Sep 78 Oet 78 otolar location Uncle-a Sam Wantsa You UNIX The Joys of UNIX Nov 78 Pattie TA Collection-Support TA Is N t for Everyone Telephone Problem Here TA Iliplications of FCC Proposal Unidentified Unit at Unknown' Oct 78 Apr 78 Jlin D The Unseen Go-Between SIGINT SIGINT Exploitatinn 1990 Cast a Double Shadow The Trojan Horse of SIGfNT Gurin Sa I el1ll1le Williams IL-__ T ORGANIZATION Some Background on the Ci T Merger T Establishes Human Resource Developl1ent Panel ' ULTRA More Beans Feeding the Germans Senior Military Cryptologic Supervisors Course STYLE A Matter of Style Jan 78 PUZZLES Three Holes Answer to Three Holes Prizewinners in Three Holes Conoces Bien la Geograf a Who and IOhom Know Your Geography _ O_'L_l_' 6_ _ _ Oct 78 Profes s iona Ii zat i01 Formatting PL I Source Code s SP0r-K_E__ cr W WARC 79 Call signs and WARe 79 WED N i LLS and that December 78 CRYPTOLOG P ge Old 'Gang oo May 78 oo Feb 78 y 78 ec 78 I You Can't Tell the Wheat f oJII the Chaff Without a P gram oo May 78 78 Oct 78 Gurin D Uolay 78 jNov 78 26 EO 1 4 c SECRI3'f' SPOKE P L 86- 3 6 P L 86-36 DOCIO toO ll 2 P L SECRBT SPOKB What Ever Happened to COPES F Jan 78 1 1 ' o What s i a Non-Name SeP 78 Who d W1i Ill Puzzle Will t Rea ly Do the Job o Nov 78 FENNWATCHER Hy ' f I if Letter to l e editor -- C l r tN e ing Apr 78 Nov 78 Ye Gadsl Another Country rrigraph System Jul 78 ' You Can't Tell the Wheat from the Chaff Without a Program Gurin FIL8Y P The lin Who Broke Purp l B O l' Revi -j F I'liding the Germans M hinj'or ati1 ook Review ' P1' 8Y Vera ' More Beans ' ' Letter to the editor - '-WdIiam ' ilS LCrostic No 16 r o '1 ---- r NOJn O ' are pseudonyms J ' ' lll -__'_ 1 Feb 78 Jun 78 System Jul 78 system Nov 78 Dec 78 GURIN J Never Again I I Letter to the editl irl - Darticle You Can't Tell the' Irih t from the Chaff Mar 78 ANONY oIJUS The Changing Face of iSA LeUer to the editor -- appr l isal system Jan 78 JWl 78 Jul 78 Oct 78 H - -----j I -- S - o v ' 'i e t C o 'M - I NT -a n- d Hov 78 EO 1 4 e 8 f tOPES GRANT Lou To Whom It May Conce Tn ' Senior Mi Ii tary'Cryptologic Supervisors Course r the Civil War Jul 78 IlARRER Donald Y Letter to the editpr -- Gilbertson letter o n ABHER ti-vayslll 1 ' fokIre B S c S r Lan a e t9dY BefOreSI' ' ' 8P_36 Apr 78 AI--- _ - I But Why Do We Do It Donkey in Your WHAT Relledial Software Engineerin g I I_Lbb S -ok_ _ ' gr ' - - - Get g K 1 N 7 8' Apr 78 Promoted Dec 78 he Tube Mar 78 ' E O KENNY Minnie INSA-Crostic N o fi t 78 CROWELL Bill A Computer Scratclt Pad at Home or a t lYi i k In te 11 i gence Minnie's Mini C----- -------------- 1 J ln--71 -- t' 86-36 December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 27 seCRECf SPOKB -------_ _ -- - Dec 78 1 4 c P L Negatl've J iO r - ' - - -i ' j i d P L P L 86-36 Oct 18 Apr 78 A Dialogue 8ejWeen Ms User and Dr Analysis Letter to the editor Jan 78 Mar 78 I 1J ---------- 1 J J A L i t t le p E prIT a l k---------- 'HHHmm H H'A AI IIJIle 't noa -O f Me Lrl ng f 1990 eI'H18HHH1C JL------1 I h Jan 78 l '''''''l'I'''''l ' SIGINT Exploltation i '--r 1 A LInguist Looks at I- 78 EO 1 4 e Juli' s 86- 36 HORN Joseph E and NOLTE William l An Early HSA Proposal for Satellite Rell10ting Oct -78--- 78 Dec 18 1 c I----- H L BUC r 0 the editcif- Pattie 'As IwasS Yirt Sep Agency EnCjrRgU t l'uu ''-or-J - ui 78 U 7 ' L 'll' ln'J'e Br u c k' 'r 8i l' 'an c ' e Dec 78 f Jun 78 Splie G rral Staff a lave Sep 78 --ElI q U li p Il' en t - Ma i n Ji ana e -a You Be Sep 78 How Do You Spell Peking is a Translator Professional Feb 78 Oct 78 Jan 78 May 78 l - l e -l'G a' l'a s'l' At n o ther countrl' r graph 1 T- - I ' Letter to the editor -1' jA17prai al --I t 1 Feb 78 Oct 78 i Thanks for the Attaboy Uncle-a Sam Want a You GIL8ERTSON Eugene' A Letter to the edi or - - - - - - 1 ' Apr 78 ' 'ft at Mr jr-- A Dialogue Between ls User and Dr Analysis I' f J Oct 78 Oct 78 x Y A 86-36 P L 86-36 86- 3 Oct 78 Jun 78 Sep 78 Jul 78 Sep 78 Oct 78 May 78 6 SECRE'f SPOlfE l J o 86-36 - ' --' - M oJ 4 J aJ ' i e 'grafla n ' oo APr isl o Conoces Know Your Geography JI - Call signs and'-WARC L 79 May z8 Dec 78' MILLER Doris E An Idea for an Article Mr C l A Feb 78 o - vi tQ r I Through the Attic of NSOC Dec 78 I -- __ I CM News Jan-Nov 78 What Ever Happened to Cp OP E S _ _ Jan 78 Let ter to the editor ' I whither SRA 1l Jan 78 The Hand I s Not Quicker than the Eye Mar 78 Tdephone Problemtle-re Apf78 Apr 1 8 Looking at JOHN J By-Lines Don't Cost -- They Pay I r S l n _j'll' r o a m -5_Q_f_E_C_C_pr_Q_Q_Q_5J_ JI fH EO 1 4 P L I Jun 78 N O 'EOL4 c P L 86-36 ' Nov 78 pr 78 PATTIE Mark T Jr ' As I Was Saying Two Ye - s g ' Letter to the _ NSA Data Standards Cent l It J1 P L 86-36 Do the Job Oct 78 I Oct 78 TINSLEY Royal L ATA President ATA Letter to President Carter _ I Qata Security and 1e 'W-h-a-t s--i-n-a--N 'o Jn-Name Apr 78 Oct 78 Human Error Sep 78 I -_ _-j -et-t-e-r-t-o t h-e-e-d i tor - -I J977 art icle Mar 78 I Oct 78 Who and Whom __ Feb 78 I ' deprtrued My ue Plltby JI L - s SI'ILEMME A J The Joys and Frustrations of Plural Dropping No Winnie You've Got It Upside-Down Too t SA-Crostic No IZ NSA-Crostic No 15 I Remember SPEL NSA-Crostic No 17 IINo No Nanette 1l Means Yes Jan Feb Mar Jun Jul Sep J p c SARDONYX NSA-Crostic No 14 78 78 78 7B 78 78 78 May 78 Nov1ii WEDDING BELLS and That Old Gang of Mine J o hi -- - - - and lL-- _- -o - -- J The Sovjet General Staff ii LI I'm 1 ' Has It Ever Been Iran l t d Feb 78 Jul 78 il 1 Firsr Lady of Naval Cryptology I Formatting PL I Source Code Before A r t Nov 78 Dear k alDlNt 41 ad oa- ed wftII k Ia 8lfdttlea te very ell day lie Jog five t 1 lIlDe d illt wetPU Abe lie bal eUIII ted aIeeIIeI lrem IafI Jul 78 December 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 28 P L ad _naIly fruUated - Helpl o 86-36 SECRET SPOK boaIe or at tile offlcle Write to AU' ill I' i et 'iPy 81 lei atell lor tile E c 1 4 P L 86- 3 6 -y - F Mo Dear Help Dear Fent 1m Have you thought of Have you thought writing an article for of subscribiTlgto CRYPTOLOG A lot of CRYPTOLOG A lot people say it has done of peop'le say it wonders for curing has done wonders their loneliness and for curing their all kinds of frustraapathy boredom tion fatigue and lustlessness HAVE A PROBLEM at _ Feb 78 cUet ad moltlDg All tbII bal y virtue I cIrIvIIII me The aerdR boduI blDl oat by e b I EO PIeUe dee tell me to let a Ieb I doll ' Med tile I I Jun 78 OCt 78 Nov 78 'rt id edito -l T V W ' Hil KeaAy c 86-36- Jun 78 Celtic Languages Today 1 Jan 78 Jul 78 Mar 78 LLICK S COMINT COMSEC and Hilbert's Tenth ' Tell Me 1 ' m Just a Sinobibliophobe OC t 1 r L OCt 78 Mar 78 I -a-j 'k J-a-S a-m 1FBS SMITH Frank Some Background on the CIT Merger SNail Don Reduction Ratios in Micrographics lB ole eellUDL U DOCID 4011702 UNCLASSIFIED The -- I think -- bad news is that of the same 83 contributors 71 are men 11 are women and one is unaccounted for the writer of the anonymous letter in November Even if we put the unaccounted one in with the women it still looks bad Shouldn't more women be contributing to CRYPTOLOG Or are they all sending their stuff to Brand X Why not a survey to ask that question and while we're at it a couple of other questions to see what CRYPTOLOG readers think of it IfyoufeelHkeit answerthefoHowing questions add more paper if needed and send your comments to CRYPTOLOG Pl You don't have to sign your name Reader Su rvey Well there's good news and -- I think -bad news The good news is that of the 83 people listed in the 1978 Index 50 contributed to CRYPTOLOG for the first time and 33 are recidivists That seems to indicate _ that we're getting the message across that 1 just about anyone with anything operational to discuss can have his or her say in CRYPTOLOG 2 it doesn't cost a penny to have the item published and 3 it might even help you see I luartide in this issue in which she recommends that you list your publications in your Personnel Summary 1 In my opinion the reason why there were so few women contributors to CRYPTOLOG in 1978 was 2 Of all the titles listed in the 1978 Index the one I thought most worth reading was 3 Of all the titles listed in the 1978 Index the one I thought least worth reading was 4 Of all the things that have ever appeared in CRYPTOLOG the one that was most beneficial to me by helping me to solve-in operational problem think out something more clearly etc was S I would like to see CRYPTOLOG authors devote more attention to 6 I would like to see CRYPTOLOG authors devote less attention to 7 Not only that but Sample NSA-crostic G Lend an Here's little NSA-cro tlc to show you how easy they are to do Rules The first letters of the WORDS read vertically spell out the name of the NSAer author and the title of the work All tM letters of the words are scrambled and fitted into the diagram which contains a quotation from the work lack spaces mark ends of words words do not read up and down In diagram The NSA-crostic has been starteC for you -- now you finish it Words A shucks Wallace Beery B Torn and ----- c ---- Lake D Hansel and -----E Sl eigh-pull er F Orient H Plaything 1 Snow and --- J Sleigh-puller's feature K of the Magi 516 L I --- Mommy 1 43 29 48 22 1 b 2 E 3 C 4 H S W A 3 44 47 IT 10Il l12G13J S ---_I28 34 7 41 39 26 20 I 21 G22 B P 30 J 31C L32 E 33 F 382321592319 fAST 6 40 G41 D 2J 33 26 IS 14 December 78 Pl-Dec 78-S3-27049 CRYPTOLOG Page 29 UNCLASSIFIED 42 25 TI 30 T 37 IT 6 24 P L 86-36 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 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