DoqrD J 400 BOq GllilUV0Gllil 1 l3lBmVU lil l3GllB LrIIlWV fillSlIlWfillS fil 1 WlS l lS f W W lk ilml WHAT I AN INFORMATION RESEARCH ANALYST I j DIALOG AVAILABLE AT N S A oo oo o o o ooo 2 LET ME REPEAT AND MAKE MYSELF CLEAR oo Peter Jenks oo oo oo 3 k ooo 5 POSTSCRIPT TO DATING GAME o oo NEW DIRECTIONS IN INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY David Wo Gaddy o o 6 EARLY DAyS IN N S A COMPUTING I k 8 TELLING IT LIKE IT IS o o oo Ramon A Santiago Ortiz 11 EXPLETIVES DELETED oo ooo o o o A J Sa1emme o o o 13 WHAT AR THEY UP TO ANyWAy 1 20 LETTERS TO THE EDI TOR oo o o o o o 21 I11S BOEURBMBN'f eON'fMNS EUROBIWORB 1 I1 'I'IRI1 1 P L elasa i8eol b BIRNBlt elieBB 'BItt eBB' 1M l floo GIJil IQ lilia f J aele a lH'-iI1IJ e Heaileatioll b tfIe 8 iginatu ill' Declassified and Approved for Release by NSA on '10-'1'1- 20'1 2 pursuant to E O 135 26 MDR Case # 54778 86-36 DOCID 4009800 CfOP SB JRB'I' Published Monthly by PI Techniques and Standards for the Personnel of Operations VOL IV NO 8 AUGUST 1977 PUBLISHER WILLIAM LUTWINIAK BOARD OF EDITORS Arthur J Salemme 56425 Editor in Chief Collection L - 89555 Cryptanalysis 4 62 Machine Support l k i36s LangUage ooo oooo o o o Mathematics Reed Dawson 39575 Special Research Vera R Filby 71195 Traffic Analysis 1 Production Manager IL - TOP SBURHCf 267S 1 44775 4gg8s For individual subscriptions send name and organizational designator to CRYPTOLOG PI P L 86-36 DQCID 4009-8-GG---EURONFI9BHTIlab WHAT IS AN INFORAfA TION RESEARCH ANALYST nformation Science is concerned with the recognition acquisition orderly storage maintenance retrieval and dissemination of information data or materials in support of NSA CSS analytic and research functions Information Science is interdisciplinary in nature and draws upon computer science library science documentation and other technologies for theory and methods This quote was taken from the Information Science Intern Manual The field of Information Science has not been effectively introduced to NSA CSS Certainly this is partially attributable to the lack of a conclusive widely-known explanation of the discipline At present T12 is the only ------ I T12 NSA organization which seeks to t ain such analysts This restrictive compart entalization is shortchanging the Agency It i time to recognize the skills of lnformation 'Science Ana1ysts ISAs as skills of potential- benefit to all organizations T12 can and does provid ' a valuable servi e to NSA but it is not used t6 its greatest potential Perhaps this is p cause the services are not advertised enough pr that experience has been that the wrong ervices have been offered The reaction on the Part of the users seems to be to give up A more'productive approach by customers might result in better experiences in the future Since 1 1'2 is a service organization suggestions by other organizations would be P L August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 1 EURONFI9BNTIAI 86-36 DOCID 4009800 CONFIDEN'fIAL P L welcomed readily and if feasible could be instituted All organizations should take another look at Information Science Analysts and note the skills and knowledQe that well-trained ISAs have I 86-36 cases Why not continueihis practice extending it to professibnali zed analysts Although I am an intern and my judgment is certainly biased I think that the IS interns have already proved my proint When interns go into non-Tl2 elements and work alongside other analysts they see how much people do not know about Tl2' s services They' also see where tl2 is lacking The interchange between the interns and their parent organization Tl2 is an excellent way to encourage changes which will improve the information services at NSA A pool of ISAs might enhance the possibilities for continuea interchange Thus I make the followinQ proposals 1 If that analyst or those offices had an experienced ISA to turn to for help -- right in the same office -- product might improve and experience with and services from Tl2 might also improve Often analysts are unsure of whom to-consult or even if anyone should be consulted ona particular problem The in-office ISA could at least direct the questioning analyst to the correct Tl2 service Many organizations do long-term research projects and have Special Research Analysts SRAs working on them However it is my understanding that SRAs are to do day-to-day research and reporting while ISAs should research the long-term or new efforts Perhaps a pool of ISAs could be organized for temporary loan to offices for such projects In fact such is the situation with IS interns in many 2 T12 should investigate the pOSSibility ofestablishing a pool of ISAs who can be loaned on a temporary basis to those organizations needing such service 3 Non-T12 offices should investigate the need for full-time ISAs and include them in their next budget requirements eSNFIBEli'fiAL chemistry meteorology oceanography physlcs agriculture international business forecasts electronic data processing patents computers energy metals education psychology etc DIALOG A ailable Thousands of periodicals are indexed ready to help solve your information needs a4 DIALOG the on-line data system shown in the illustration on page 1 is one of the newest systems serving the information needs of NSA analysts The system provides access to more than 40 open-literature data bases dealing with science technology business economics and the social sciences Individual files include biology A gust To make use of the DIALOG system and for other information service call or visit the following organizations Organization Tl2l3 Tl222 11222 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 2 CONFID BN'fIAL Room TeZephone 2N090 2C053 2E029 5759s 3258s 3l89s U DOClD 4009800 TOP g CR T UMBRA LET filE REPEAT- I y let me repeat AND MAKE MYSELF PERFECTLY CLEAR Peter Jenks G August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 3 EO 1 4 c 86-36 'fOP SECRE'f UMBR L DOCID 1 4 c L 86-36 4009800 TOP iiCR T UMBRA I August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 4 TOP 813 JRB UMBRA DOClD 40098001 4 c 86-36 1 ' o o TOP SECRET U 'fIBftA POSTSCRIPT TO DATING GAME'II IL --- d P L R51 t's hard to take exception to a formula as simple as Y L M D N One can and I will add a few complications A note at the end of Dave Williams' article Dating Game CRYPTOLOG July 1977 specifies For dates in the twenty-first century subtract one from N for those in the nineteenth century add 2 To subsume these two apparently ad-hoc directives under a general rule valid for all centuries after the sixteenth when the calendar reform went into effect Let C be the first two digits of the year i e the centu ry digits but numerically one smaller since we are now in the twentieth century although C 19 LJke L Williams' leap-year factor let F ign ing any remainder Then the century correction to the Williams formula is to add to his N before finding the remainder after division by 7 the terms F - 2C 34 or alternatively F - 2C - 1 For the nineteenth twentieth and twenty-first centuries the century correction in tabular form is JI Stop the Presses L - NSA Technical Journal Vol XXI No 1 Twentieth Anniversary Issue Winter 1976 Many codewords are vague enough to leave doubt as to their precise interpretation One officer told me I got a message which directed me to get ready for Operation CLEAN SWEEP I didn't know whether to run for the broom closet or pack my bags in anticipation of being reassigned Centu ru C 86-36 August 77 F - 2C 34 19 18 4 2 20 19 4 o -1 21 20 5 Thus the ad-hoc directives aren't all that ad-hoc A more detailed treatment can be found on page 209 of El ementary Number Theory Uspensky and Heaslet Mc-Graw-Hill New York 1939 available in NSA Library call numbers QA241 Us6 UNCLASSIFIED U P L F CRYP LOG Page 5 TOP SECRET UMBRA I 86-36 SECRET NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE U S INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY Reprinted from Fie d Info ation Letter 4-77 April 1977 with the kind permission of its editor William Hunt ne of the Inaugural Day acts or che o the Policy Review Committee PRC and Carter administration was the ano the Special Coordination Committee SCC nouncement of a reorganization of the Chairmanship of the PRC is designated for each National Security Council Reflectmeeting depending on the subject matter being ing the personal touch of the new President the considered the Assistant for National Security change was to place more responsibili t y in the Affairs Mr Brzezinski chairs the SCC Both departments and agencies while assuring that the committees are of concern to us Both impact on National Security Council NSC with the Asthe organizational structure announced by Presisistant to the President for National Security dent Ford in EO 11905 2 o Affairs continues to integrate and facilitate The PRC is to develop national security foreign and defense policy decisions 1 Participolicy for Presidential decision in those cases pation at appropriate NSC meetings was broadened where the basic responsibilities fall primarily yet a more flexible concept was evident The within a given department but where the subject Carter NSC was to be more a mechanism than a also has important implications for other destructure a facilitating mechanism to assist partments and agencies Examples are the President in analyzing and reaching decisions in matters of foreign domestic and ino foreign policy issues with significant telligence policy military or other interagency aspects o defense policy issues with international The concept is most evident in the establishimplications ment of just two basic NSC committees through @ which all work is to be done o coordination of the annual Defense budget with foreign policy objectives o preparation of a consolidated national intelligence budget and resource allocation for the Intelligence Community and Ipresidential Directive NSC-2 20 January o international economic issues pertinent to 1977 PD NSC-l also dated 20 January 1977 U S foreign policy and security established the Presidential Directive and the Presidential Review Memorandum PRM 'as instru- The intelligence function of the PRC thus rementalities to direct the work of the NSC and placed that of the Committee on Foreign Intelligence CFI under EO 11905 True to the flexiparticipating agencies and to inform the departments and agencies of Presidential direcble mechanism idea when the PRC is performing in the CFI-like role the Director of Central tives They replace the National Security Study Memoranda NSSM National Security DeciIntellil1 ence DCn_ airs_ and staff support sion Memoranda NSDM of the Kissinger era The PRM series directs that reviews and analy2See Reorganization of United States Intelses be undertaken on subjects of interest to ligence Fie d Information Letter 8-76 the President August 1976 pp 4-8 August 77 CRYPTOLOG Pal e 6 SfiEURRE'I' l 1tBhE VIA e6 lIfq'f elb lf ql LS 61tH' 4 c P L SI3CRI3 6 especially of the program and budget sort is provided by the Intelligence Community Staff ICS PRC I is the shorthand acronym The Intelligence Research and Development What does all this portend for the substrucCouncil shifted from lRAC the former Intelli- ture It's too early to tell but we shouldn't gence Resources Advisory Committee the rehave to wait long A full-scale comsource counterpart of USIB the intelligence prehensive review of major foreign intelliboard to CFI last go-round has been regence activities and the organizational strucsubordinated to the PRC I ture and functioning of the Intelligence ComThe SCC deals with special cross-cutting is- munity has been directed of the SCC by the sues requiring coordination in the development President in his PRM NSC-Il of 22 February 1977 of options and the implementation of PresidenAmong other considerations i will specifical y tial decisions This includes such items as address EO 11905 and the interrelationships oversight of sensitive intelligence activities among the various intelligence agencies It arms control evaluation and assistance to the had a du date of June 1977 The Senate President in crisis management Select Committee has a special interest in the matter of legislative charters Therefore GBPongress will be watching the outcome closely as will we all ' NSC STRUCTURE Old NSC I Assistant to the President -NSC Staff for National Security Affairs White House Situation Room I Undersecretaries Committee Senior II I CFI Verification Panel Review Group I Defense Programs Review Committee I Washington Special Action Group I Operations Advisory Group NSC STRUCTURE New I I PRC White House SituationRoom NSC Interdepartmental Groups NSC I Assistant to the President -NSC Staff for National Security Affairs Staff Secretariat SCC Special Activit'Ies Working Group The five regional and one Politico-Military interdepartmental groups are carry-overs expected to change The NSC staff is organized on a regional functional basis _o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o o_o_o_o_o_o_o August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 7 8ECRE Ib'diBhE VIA eeltilIlff elI1cN14I' L Ol4Lt DOCID 4009800 CRBT EARLi DAYS IN N S A I lJIII'4 3j efore the first generation of modern computers became a reality NSA even in the fragmented form of early years before officially constituted as such in 1952 realized the enormous possibilities of these devices No satisfactory model being commercially available not even from IBM our staff of engineers at Arlington Hall Station proceeded in 1950 to design and build a computer tailored for NSA problems This device which became known as ABNER was our first real computer the first means we had other than such things as primitive IBM car9sort ing devices of relieving analystsf rolll the drudgery of repetitive pencil and p per trials -ABNER's genesis and construction owed much to the abilities f R D The ABNER machine consisted of four logical units with electronic circuitry capable of carrying out arithmetic control analytical and input-output functions connected to a memory device holding 1024 48-bit words This memory took the physical form of 128 tubes filled with mercury each tube equipped at one end with a sound-pulse generator and at the other with a re l d-out gate which transformed the sound pulses back to electrical signals When in operation each tube contained a train of 334 sound or no-sound pulses representing the binary digits 1 and 0 in eight computer words of 45 bits apiece wtth an additional 3 bits for synchronization Once a word was read out at the gate it was immediately available for interpretation by one of the logical units ofl Either in its original form or as altered by a logical unit the word was then sent back to the other end of its tube and once more converted to a train of sound pulses While traveling through the tube in this form the word was unavailable for any purpose and if it was called for by the program during this interval the computer had to wait unttlit arrived at the read-out gate A good deal of the programmer's time was therefore devoted to planning an arrangement of the program orders and the data so that this delay time would be minimized in the execution of the program This delay time could be anything from 0 to 7 cycles An - ABNER cycJe consisted of 48 microseconds The first 5 bits of a word defined one of the 32 basic ABNER Operations when the word was interpreted as an Instruction The succeeding four 10-bit segments were called the a B y 6 alpha beta gamma delta addresses In the generalized form of an ABNER operation the machine sent words a and B to the Arithmetic Unit performed the indicated Operation stored the result in word y and took the next Instruction from word 6 The power and versatility of ABNER' were conenhanced by a number of deviations sidera ly Wal hit is See History of NSA GeneralPurpose Electronic Digital Computers by Samuel S Snyder Monograph No 2 NSA Technical Literature Series 1964 S-CCO August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 8 SECRET HMIBhE VIA eSMill'f eibldlllEh5 eUhY P L 86-36 DOCID 4009800 SBCRB'f from the above scheme which permitted an effective use of more than 32 Operations Certain of the Operations utilized the a bits to expand the Instruction code Five analytical orders provided a Beta Prime feature whereby an order could be set up to refer to two operands one at the given S address the other at the S address plus 512 mod 1024 An auxiliary order 0 used before certain other orders modified their functions It was possible to hold one operand during repetition or to define any two streams of pentabits as operands in a repetitive process This facilitated sliding messages against each other in search of depths created by reuse of keys which was quite a common phenomenon in those relatively innocent days of long ago In the four logical units of the ABNER computer a word was interpreted differently as follows In the Interpreted as Arithmetic unit a number Control unit an order Analytical unit pentabits bits 243 to 20 plus sign 0 y B a OP eight 5-bit words 5 bits not used Input-output unit characters nine 5-bit characters This versatility of interpretation gave ABNER a more powerful computing ability than the modern programmer would assume from its modest memory and limited number of orders ABNER was designed to have magnetic ta es 'punched cards paper-tape and an IBM CXCO-l typewriter as input output media In my experience the latter two were the most widely used When it proved necessary to write a program which could not fit into the available memory it often proved practical to organize the job in what we would now call modules so that after module 1 completed its task results could be outputted or stored in a small part of the memory and module 2 could be read in from paper taJle destroying module 1 and data no longer rerequired In this manner several steps could be carried out serially circumventing to a degree the memory limitations tee In early use of ABNER pioneer programmer such as contributed to the development of the diagnostic programs grouped under the name STETHOSCOPE These were forerunners of the RYE programs developed much later these RYE programs remain available today As an example of the excellence of ABNER's logical design consider the P order nicknamed Swish In one operation Swish lined up two streams of pentabits and returned a count of hits accomplishing thereby what even today takes several orders to do Modern computers are not logically superior to ABNER they have Qerely benefitted from staggering advances in electronic technology The logical organization o P L 86-36 EO 1 4 c of ABNER was not Qll Y well in advance of its own era but in some respects has yet to be equaled by any present computer Very rams survive toda __ Four other programmers all individually brighter than myself had been assigned to do this job as a team Each said his or her part was OK but when the four parts were put on ABNER at the same time distressing thin s - curred and no solutions appeared EaL n was therefore convinced that one of the other three was sadly in error and an impasse developed At this point I was called in to give it a try In those long-departed days it was considered that analysts should do the thinking and programmers should do what they were told So the analyst lexplained to me in great detail the method of attack It all seemed very clever and complicated but as a simple-minded person I couldn't help feeling there was an easier way As one detail in recovering a fractionation of the cipher they tested for an excess of 7sby carefully counting all 10 digits before making the calculation I merely counted 7s and not -7s Wi th the advantage of a simplified approach and the fact that -- in contrast to the team of four -- my right hand did know what my left hand was doing I was able to make the VITN IN program work This was beneficial to the Agency and to my career therein but I don't know that the team of four was alto ether _ecstat c I In my opinion a difficult problem can be effectively tackled by a team of two program mers It is becoming le_s and less efficient to add more programmers to the team Two will correct each other's errors on a reciprocal basis and the project will move ahead smoothly Withmol'epeopleinvolved moreanxietyenters the picture The individual programmer doesn't want to be lost in the crowd and becomes increasingly reluctant to take or give useful criticiSQ I once knew a programmer who had been hunting for a bug for several days One day I stopped by his desk to talk about something else and while waiting for his return glanced at his program lying face up on his desk I noticed a certain irregularity in one routine that didn't seem to look right and on his return asked about it A great light dawned on him Yet ever thereafter when he saw me coming or he left his desk he would carefully turn his program sheets face down August 77 CRYPTOLOG 8 CRB'f Page 9 Ih 1IS E '1 SSIIHI'f SIWINEI S SU Y P L 86-36 DocrD 4009800 SECRET Another programmer finally baffled asked me to look for a bug Being familiar with all kinds must I admit thIUugh having made them myself 1 quickly found in 5 minutes of search the places where arabic' I had been punched instead of Roman 1 which proved indeed to be her trouble She was stunned that I found the errors so quickly thanked me faintly and never asked for my help again So 1 think in the education of programmers egoless programming is the most important single thing to learn Returning to ABNER it seems fitting to mention that in those days the engineers kept the machine working The programmers were the operators You had to know what all the buttons did and take complete responsibility for loading and running your own program -- there was no one to do it for you The decision to move from Arlington Hall to Fort Meade was doom for ABNER A one-of-a-kind machine it was never intended to be moved and was not At the Fort Meade site the engineers worked on ABNER Model 2 which utilized quartz instead of mercury pools as a medium for the sound pulses In a technical sense they were successful Given perfect conditions ABNER-2 would work However the quartz medium was sensi ti ve to minuscule c hanges in temperature and humidity and was never as reliable as the pools of mercury in ABNER-Its tubes Then too advances in electronic technology made the whole concept of sound pulses and 48-microsecond cycles seem quaint and out of date so ABNER-2 was dismantled and the ABNER concept passed into history _ The arrival of the IBM 701 computer at Arlington Hall some time before the 195S move to Fort Meade brought us into cgut act with the first generation of commercial coiiiImter device s Navy Lieutenant I hope he has S1nce made admiral became our outstanding expert on oo ooo ' 'K' b e'l' oooo xf From 'oo ' ooo oe this device which modern programmers would also consider impossibly quaint The magnetic tapes did work but they were not physically strong enough to hold up well One program I wrote prepared a difference book for use in depth-readings but it was about a 50-50 proposition as to whether or not the magnetic tape used would break before the run was completed A more provoking feature of the 701 for many programmers was the necessity of programming card input-output through the formation of a card image in the machine For the 12 rows of a card to be read it was necessary to program 12 pairs of Left Copy and Right Copy orders given at specified time intervals to copy the left and right halves of the 12 rows of a card into 24 computer words The information then required an additional routine to convert the punches binary 1 and blanks binary 0 into characters or numbers To output anything a similar process was neeci _mm __ in reverse Iand--Idid-a-bfisK business for a while preparing input output r9u ' tines for programmers who found the wholepr6 cess discouraging Of course all programming was in machine language -- if 4 was the ADD order you punched 04 and not ApD No one had heard of FORTRAN as yet ang as with ABNER if you wanted to run you r 'Program you became the operator in order do so For all its pri itive features the 701 still represented quantum jump in analytical capacity and a s everyone knows by now was fol10wed bY the 704 709 7090 and the latest 360 and '370 model s with all the associated soft ' are and a babel of higher-level languages such as FORTRAN COBOL ALGOL PL I and the like No future programmers will ever know what the early days were like Yet something may still be gleaned from a glimpse of the pioneers and their problems to CSr 'tiR l T 8 History of NSA GeneraZ-Purpose EZectronic DigitaZ Computers J by Samuel S Snyder delay lines in the memory was always extremely critical and the inBtrumentB used for measurement and regulation were inadequate Also the input-output equipment IBM collator Remington-Rand printer electric typewriter and Raytheon magnetic-tape drives were often out of operation and computation was ineffective or erroneous when input-output errol'll aroee However ABNER design and construction laid the foundation for many important later developmentB ABNER was among the Drat computel'll in the country to operate succeBBfully magnetic tapes simultaneously with internal computation Its analytic instructions and other unique features made it extremely efficient for many cryptologic applications ItB Swish instruction was a model for planning DELLA CICERO and several other specially-designed equipmentB in the cryptologic arsenal and was a forerunner of the HARVEST Streaming units Many programs made good use of the magnetic-tape capabilities as well as the analytic instructions ABNER Serial 1 cost approximately $600 000 It contained 1500 tubes and 25 000 diodes ABNER Serial 2 cost about $750 000 August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 10 SBCRET IlNlBbE VIA EUR811Hff EURIWttlEb6 EltibY mmm_ P L 86-36 DOCID _ 4009800 TELLING IT LIKE IT IS A CRYPTSL06 Interriew with Ramon A SBntiago Ortiz 66f2 __ iNo nOI gUlf Mary Ann Harrison teZZs us that you teZephoned her recentZy to teZZ her how much you Ziked her' articZe Why Are These PeopZe Sm Ung in the May 1977 CRYPTOLOG She said that your remarks about the status of the Spanish native Unguist at NSA deserve much broader dissemination WouZd you be wiZZing to share some of your views with CRYPTOLOG readers Certainly The situation that I mentioned to Ms Harrison has been building up for several years and I feel that now might be a good time to bring it to the attention of people who might be able to improve it U ii EO 1 4 c P L 86-36 August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 11 SECRET W 'lQf 1 VIA ESIllN'F El I liliEbS SliM' DOClD 1 4 c P 86-36 4009800 813EURRE'f SEERE'f EES 0_0_0-'0_ _0 1l_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0' Want to Play with a Pickfai r Square The next day our Cryptanalysis editor received the following solution from p -----_ G54Y' Inscribe the first 100 letters in a 10xlO matrix in colUDmS from left to right - - _ H P R I H The following letter appeared in the June 19 1977 edition of Potomac Magazine The Washington Post Uyptograpbic OWlenge R-t cor ClCIPClllIDiDc the crypt opBm inIpires thia letter Your obriouIly n at iL ID ptJwiJw --e for a book I am writiDI OIl DouPa PairbaDb ad Mary Piddord I caae 1IGBPlW8 a coded - e _ t to DouBtaa Pairblmb by hiI brother Robert The few crypt oarapben I mow have been uJSable 10 IOIve it NaturalJ y rd low to bow what it - ya The word -Nyeofl may bJy appNr it the brotbea code word for S ma Wdy A hley with whom Fairbab _ in_ _ at the time Tbe - - dated JuDe 23 1933 foDoln I- Then pull off letters diagonally starting in upper left-hand corner HPRIIfI' PRT IERGAGUISN PBNSYCANOH Al CFYCIU URDOKWLTWIf ERGOOLIDUOUNIHlWNOYV IPI NRAYENSYlPBRK V perNote that the questioned letter is ac hQa U ANa DO in thia tually a V but there are two other garbles line-aIl nm tAlptber WOFERAurru CTlONS ROBERT 8ootoIl Herndon 0 ' $' YiBIIIiIL P S PICKFAIR in the message refers to the Hollywood estate of Mary Piakford and Douglas Fairbanks UNCLASSIFIED August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 12 SECRE'f IIM BhE YIA eSllIl 'F EIIJ'da Eh5 SI hY P L 86-36 DOCID 4009800 UNCLASSIFIED EXPLETIVES DELETED HOW TO HANDLE OBSCENITIES IN FOREIGN TEXT I I I A J PI 6 Edited version of a given in March 1977 for CLA's Special Interest Group on Translation 1' m completely aw that half of you people have looked at your watch and are wondering how iong 1t will be before I actually come out and say bleep 1 so let's get it over with Slide 1 Slide 1 Yes SIGTRAN has another speaker But the question might be Why the topic Well this is the way the situation developed The CLA lecture committee had another topic and a speaker lined up and the posters were all made up too The lecture was called The Flyaway Linguist Well he done flew away 1 When one of the members of the SIGTRAN lecture committee heard that he said something like well Oh fbleep Someone else present sai ' Say that would bea good idea for a talk Explanatory note The word b lee p in the following text does not indicate that certain words were originally spoken but are now deemed to be unprintable No The words were never uttered On each occurrence a 30x40 posterboard with that word was held in front of the speaker's face As for what he thoull ht who's going to get paid a fee who's actually prepared a written text and dry-runned it dryran it has suddenly got sick or is out of the country and good old Art is like the guy with the trained dog act in the circus who waits for the aerialist to miss the net whereupon the cry goes out Bring 'em out So here I am In a way I'm also like Ferdinand de Lesseps the creator of the Panama Canal You know the palindrome A man a plan a canal -- Panama It reads the same backwards I tried to work one out for me too but the best I could do was Emmelas -- ecneidua na cipot al It doesn't read as well frontwards but the idea is there I had another reason to be considered because several years ago I wrote an article for what we could call a sister agency's publication The article was on this very topic of -- well some people call them dirty words but I call them unconventional words In fac when I heard that the topic was chosen for the talk I at first thought that Mrs Kenny was going to give the talk so I gave her a copy of that article Beyond Webster's and All That Dictionaries of Unconventional Language to help her out But she said No Art you're going to give it So here I stand Before discussing obscenities in foreign languages Slide 3 we have to know what obscenities are what nasty language is Perhaps And so once they got the idea for the talk the speaker was obvious Slide 2 because Slide 3 Slide 2 although I don't really have a reputat on as bad as Typhoid Mary of the lecture serles if you see my name on a poster as the person who is going to be giving a lecture you can be pretty sure that the good speaker the one a definition of obscenity would be fitting here Well if the Supreme Court couldn' do it I'd have to be a pretty dum I bleee' Ito think that I could Instead I'm going to say You know what an obscenity is You know what blasphemy is Because surprisingly enough the very words that we use and -- oops did I say we I mean you The very words that you use have been in the English language for August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 13 UNCLASSIFIED DOCID 4009800 UNCLASSIFIED many many centuries Since the words have been kicking around for so long everyone knows them by now But as you know styles change And that includes styles in speech People nowadays can come r t out and say loud and clear words 1ike ij lee p 1 And even print words 1ike I b lee p I People can not me But really styles in language are similar to styles in anything In clothing The things I see on television you wouldn't believe it The things I see in furniture stores Because you know that a table is a table People have been making tables for hundreds of years There's a basic concept for a table it's a surface with legs on it Now if the Victorians wanted to clutter that all up with a lot of gingerbread carving and then cover the whole thing with a tablecloth that didn't alter the fact that there really were legs under there But the Victorians couldn't even talk about table legs Because if they talked about table legs that would make people think You must be thinking about human legs And if so So the Victorians covered it up With cloth And their language covered it all up too Well we live different now We live in the Age of Plastics the Age of Glass We don't want to cover the structure of what we're saying So if we feel like calling someone a dirty son of a -- oops t at was close -- and then come out and say it But a proviso again -- we don't they dol one word once in un odd moment that kid will store it away and know exactly when to say it It's when your mother-in-law is visiting But why is what the kid says so nasty It all depends on the society in which he lives You've all heard about the family in a primitive society where the people wore no clothing whatsoever The only adornment was the bone that married women wore through their nose One day seated around the campfire the kid -- 12 or 13 say happened to notice anatomical differences He tells Paw Hey Paw Maw don't have a So Paw gave the kid the names of all the differences -- no problem Then the kid said But Paw there's one thing I'm wondering about What's that thing that Maw has through her nose Paw said Goddammit kid there are some things that decent people just don't talk about Another example of a sociological aspect of language and also of basic human meanness is provided by last names Most last names in all languages are based on the father's name or the person's occupation where he lives how tall he is etc Smith Kuznetsov and Haddad are all the same name Johnson Ivanov Johannson are the same Little Malenkov Baker Boulanger But there are also in all languages names like Shitepoke We know from history that in societies where people didn't have last names people's basic meanness There are many factors that influence the use came to the forefront when names were being assigned Like in the Austro-Hungarian Empire of language They include in the time of Maria Theresa when registry o style offices were set up to give every Jew a last o taboo and superstition name like it or not You could buy a good o word magic name or if not well your name might not be o basic human meanness too appealing H L Mencken mentions the o etc story about the fellow who comes out of the If Jackie 0 says Oh stuff it then all registry office and tells his friend he was her pals will say Oh stuff it Just like the given the name Schweisshund Bloodhound way that anyone who wanted to work with or for Why didn't you give him some money and get a McNamara had to say VEET Nam If he said good name Are you kidding It took every Vi-ET NAHM he wouldn't have been in So pfennig I had just to have him put the Win language fashions come in and go out And those of you who know Turkish know that That applies too to nasty words Especially the same situation prevailed in this very centusince they are involved with word taboo and superry after Kemal Ataturk carne to power He said stitition You can't say certain things You that people would have last names Live can't say Oh isn't that a cute baby because modern Get a last name just like the Europethen his hair will fallout Or if you say ans have And once again people got inferior that you hope that something nasty will happen names if they didn't come across with some to someone it will really happen Word magic money or if they resisted the idea completely is very strong But nevertheless the words stay Of course in any country then and now it's in the language Because people are people possible to get court relief In old Russia Basically they're no damned good I mean if you didn't pay the registrar enough to get we're no damned good So the words have been a good name you could pay a judge 500 rubles around for a long time and we use them whenever and get it changed If you got the name we feel like it My wife has been telling my Durakov son of a fool you could get one kids for a lifetime Well your father uses letter changed -- Durasov In old Russia those words because he's got a poor vocabulary they wouldn't let you change your name so drasOn the contrary I know just when I want to use tically that it would seem that you were hiding them Yes people are mean They can remember from the authorities -- so if your name were them for a long time and then use them appropri- say Semizhopov the best you could hope for was_a ately All of you who have kids maybe 2 3 reduction to say Pyatizhopov -- Seven-bottoms 4 or 5 years old -- you know that if you say changed to Five-bottoms Russians really know August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 14 UNCLASSIFIED DOCID 4009800 UNCLASSIFIED lary slapped onto it Also we can use Latin or names A Sovl'et Pl' lot dehow to c hange t h elr J apan severa 1 years ago He's got Greek when we want to sound extra fancy while f ected ln the name Rastvorov He wants to disguise his 'saying everyday things No doctor would say name so he changes it to Rastovorov But You have an infected toenail That wouldn't that's Russians Americans have a more sensible be worth $55 He's got a fancier name for it s Oh yeah A few months and you'd at t 1't ud e t owar d na me h 1 better f makeI sure you use it on your ago an American judge refused to allow a osplta lzatl0n orm woman to change her name legally from CooperThus if you want to say something nasty man to Cooperperson see CRYPTOLOG Decem er you don't have to use nasty Anglo-Saxon words 1976 He ruled that It would have serlOUS If a person does use those Anglo-Saxon words repercussions perhaps throughout the entire you can say He uses scatological language country But is that any better than using the ordinary word For it dawned on me a while back as In addition to being mean people are ingeni- a linguist that the word scatological is ous when it comes to language If xou want to the same as the Modern Greek word skata say something nasty but are afraid to for fear which means -- well I don't really know how of getting your mouth washed out with soap you to explain it except by saying that there are can say things like Jumping Jehosephatl several word pairs in English in which an Dad nabbit Goldernit Gee dee it initial sh and sk are derived from the same Heck Sherbet and so on You can even word For example the word skirt and shirt see these things in print You can see or say are both derived from the same older word So the letters S O B although you can't come out look up the word scatological in the dictionand say the words they stand for But people ary and you might be surprised at its etymology know that when you say Sherbet you're really not thinking sherbet The wife of a former INb 0-I VROPEAN RO OTS carpool member of mine grew up in the Texas J _ _ Bible Belt Whenever she said Heck she'd get a good slap across the mouth and her mother would say You said one thing but you thought the other - And don't try to fool people If you say one thing and think another your listeners will know it Several years ago my wife and I went on a guided bus tour to Pennsylvania Dutch country The guide -- Miss Priss we called her -- worn white gloves to show she was a lady But she had the dirtiest mind She m de all kinds of funny references to placenames ln Pennsylvania Dutch country When people would sort of snicker she'd say What's so funny I don't even know what you're talking about Because I'm not that kind of girl Well I thought she was that kind of a girl and the white gloves didn't change it So if I hear people snickering in my audience I kn w that you know what I'm talking about even lf I don t come out and say it So you can use words that almost say it You can say Sherbet and no one will mind Or Phenobarbitol You can trick kids sometimes when they're just starting to pick up nasty language from the kids in the street by saying Well I don't mind what you say but don't say the worst word there is No I m not going to tell you what it is or you'll say it Well okay you've wormed it out of me - it's 'Phenobarbitol So you can trlck a k1d for maybe a week to think that that s __ really the wo-rst possible cuss word But lf you stlll want to say something nasty but don't want to fake it by words that sound sort of like it there's something else you can do You can se fancy language English is unusual in that lt is a Germanic language wi th lots of French vocabu- Slide 4 Yes Indo-European roots can reveal a lot For example there I was several years ago when Peter was only 3 years old and all our friends were saying that he had a speech impediment Well he didn't and he doesn't And so I was rather pleased when he would try to build blocks and when they fell down he would say Oh drit l'd think Good he can't say it like Dad does But then again years after Peter was grown it dawned on me My God 'drit' is a metathesis of 'dirt' I wonder if Sure enough It was And if you go to the dictionary and look up the English word dirt you'll be amazed at what it really means Not only that but it's same word as the German Dreck As in the inexpensive furniture that furniture salesmen try to push -- furniture which is Dreck from the factory to use we Yiddish in-jake Yes dirt means b lee Of course it's ngt the only meaning As the nun in the story learned The nun seated in the airplane doing a crossword puzzle who asked her companion What's a four-letter word meaning 'dirt' He answered Silt Oh dear she said do you have an eraser August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 15 UNCLASSIFIED DOClD 4009800 UNCLASSIFIED So what's the fuss Everyone seems to know the words anyway Even women Those soft cuddly -- no I shouldn't use sexist terms -those pough uncuddly creatures know them Take for example Sylvia Sidney's needlepoint b ok Slide 5 You cuddly or uncuddly females can ask yourself What's he-doing ' word and then we have to disguise it But that's no problem We can say Mer-r-r d'Azov that's Sea of Azov in French Or Mer-r-r Daly of Chicago Or even do what the French do -- refer to it as Ie mot de Cambronne Because French General Cambronne was famous for saying it so it has become Cambronne's word Just as Nuts is General McAuliffe's word Or rather just as it ain't Because HoWS TI-I even though much has been written about how McAuliffe told the Germans Nuts when they sylv Sid oo asked him to capitulate at Bastogne he didn't really say that I can see the poor general up here in heaven now strumming his harp sayIng Gee dee it I didn't say it No I t u kh# he really didn't say it He said something else that was sort of similar but a bit more army-ish To make the story more acceptable to the news services and the delicate readers Stateside his original fiveSlide 5 letter rejoinder was replaced by Nuts was this the reading a needlE point book But I'm going to first and only time that a stay with the example In that book she has four-letter word was put in a full-color photograph of a cushion she emto clean up the text broidered for a friend in show biz It says And there are' even more 0 LORD give me a BASTARD with TALENT Why ways of concealing what not Bastard's a word And Tallulah Bankhead you want to say You can when she was introduced to Norman Mailer You use a secret language -recall that in The Naked and the Dead Mailer in your own family or used a commonly used Army word repeatedly but in your own crowd Take he-spelled it differently -- he put a-fInal g for example Cockney on it instead of the original ak That caused rhyming slang Me and quite a ruckus in the publishing business then the trouble and strife Imagine using the actual word sort of instead means me and the wife of using a dash So when Tallulah Bankhead And who are the Godwas introduced to Mailer at a party she said forbids -- why the kidsl Oh yes you're the oun g man who doesn't know After a while though everyone else learns how to spe 11 I b lee _ I the secret language so you have to introduce refinements With Cockney rhyming slang the Or rna be ever bod doesn't know them -- refinement was to drop the last elemen L- the' L who used to work here came from a very l'hymingwofd So nowadays iiRunupth a pples cuI t l vated family in San Francisco Royola means Run upstairs it rhymes with apples once said that when she or her sister would and pears It's in 'is titfer means bring home a new word that they had heard some- It's in 'is 'at rhymes with titfer tat one use at school her mother wouldn't say All right then why is the Bronx cheer Ie That's a nasty word Instead she would say mof d' Archie -Bunker de-fIned in Webster's Third Let's look it up in the dictionary and see as raspberry 3 And what does the third definiwhat it means Let's see how do you spell it tion of raspberry A sound of contempt or F Then what Why it's not even in the dicderision made by trilling the extended tongue betionary So I guess it's not a word Why tween the protruded lips have in common with would anyone want to say words that don't raspberries Webster's Third doesn't say exist Well it was a pretty good trick but Webster's Seaond is no help it won't work with current dictionaries either -- it only says forig E slang Well Thus we can use various combinations and per- to understand the origin of mutations of trickery to refer to nasty words the expression that so without actually saying them We can use many people use innocently phonetic close ones Fudge or fancy terms you have to know Cockney rhyming slang and figure derived from Latin or Greek Coprocephalus out what rhymes with raspberry tart etc But if we want to be ctylishly deceptive we can use foreign terms The problem- is that You can hide meanings in music too Often if we say Merde often enough our listeners when people say that the words of a song don't might get the idea that it's a nasty French make sense that they're just nonsense that's ANYWAV '''E- V6dbY y Ita t tt 1 is' o r August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 16 UNCLASSIFIED P L 86-36 DOCID 4009800 UNCLASSIFIED when they have a meaning The songs of the 1930s and 1940s that used to mean nothing to us now sound different -- Want some seafood Mama Seafood Or just listen to La Cucuracha -- they've changed the lines in it What happened to the line Porque no tiene porque 10 falta marijuana que fumar When people find out the secret meanings the words change My youngest girl Mary plays a song over and over Shake your booty As many times as she plays it I cannot actually heal' the word booty -- it sounds like Shake your trooby Shake your snooty Shake your dooby But that's understandable because language researchers have proven that if the same statement is repeated over and over the human ear will hear it differently each time Especially if it is a nonsense word But in real li fe Shake your booty does have a meaning and I'm not going to say what it is Except to say that once on television they had several girls lined up They asked ther l in turn WouJd you sh Lke your booty They all answered Sure Until they got to the black girl I ain't gonna shake my booty Good for her Until recent years there have been infrequent instances when nasty words came up in print Even medical textbooks would explain things in Latin rather than come out and call albleep la bleep D Yearsago whenH Allen Smi th was wri ting funny books he wrote in one of them that his secret desire was to arrange the seating plan on the floor of the Metropolitan Opera on opening night And he would arrange the bald heads in such a way that they would spell out a four-letter word and the dot over the I would be Nicholas Murray Butler the President of Columbia University at the time Slide 6 J Slide 6 I've also been told of a book by Philip oWylie called The Disappearance According to my informant -- I haven't been able to find a copy of the book yet -- God gets dissatisfied with the human race So He decides to do something about it To show His displeasure he has the clouds form the letter S That catches people's attention Then they form the letter H By the time the clouds start to form the letter I people start to think that it must be some practical joker with a plane up there But no there isn't any plane So they realize that it is a sign of God's displeasure He also writes the appropriate word in Russian in Cyrillic letters over Russia but it doesn't cause any ruckus Not until He says something about the leadership How typical But the question is Would God talk that way Well in my capacity as CRYPTOLOG editor -- forgive the plug -- I recently edited an article that will appear in a future issue In the article God created things like a communications terminal a link and so on Then He went on vacation leaving everything in Control's hands When He carne came back and say how Control had mixed everything up He said What the devil happened And Control answered That's just it The devil made me do it When the proof sheets with the d in devil duly lower-cased were shown to a few people to see if there were any objections one person wrote I object to this strongly God wouldn't talk this way I don't know how he knows that As for me I do believe that even God can look words up the Webster's Third and might use any of them in the proper context Nasty Words at NSA And so finally we come to the real topic of this talk -- nasty words at NSA and how to handle them If you as linguists want to read all the literature on the subject you won't have much to read There's that article that I wrote back in 1969 It was submitted to an Agency publication at that time there was only one and it was deemed to be unsuitable So I sent it to the editor of a publication at a sister Agency Over there in Langley And they published it They realized that the article had a point -- Linguists have to know all the nasty words in their foreign language and should not be embarrassed to ask what any word really means in English Linguists have the right to know all the words in electronic engineering don't they So why not nasty words too If two people are talking to one another in a foreign language and one belts the other in the mouth why did he do it What did the other guy call him Come on now don't be coy or cute Tell me if you know Did he call him a son of a camel-driver No it was worse than that Well what was it I don't wanna tell you The article explains why and how the linguist should insist on finding out what everything means in the language he specializes in J even the unconventional words Whenl asuatuDenfchmentUR mhe wrote a dissertation on Russian taboo words Most of the students at Detachment R wrote dissertations like The Soviet Police System or The Role of the Messkit Repair Battalion in the Tactical Situation So when Larry said August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 17 UNCLASSIFIED ------------------------ - c P L 86-36 DOCID 4009800 UNCLASSIFIED that he wanted to compile a dictionary of taboo nice to give the English meanings No it was words he had a heck of a time getting that dispointed out to him at the time people didn't sertation approved Finally it was approved have to know what the expressions meant -- all with the understanding that the complete printthey had to know was that the material wasn't ing run would be five count 'em five copies worth looking at At that time several people and Larry would do his own typing of the' working in that area formulated Rule No 1 when multilith stencils we wouldn't want our typists dealing with Russian text If you have an exto see much less type those words would we pression that you cannot find out the meaning Larry then went around to the Russian instructors of and one of the words in it begins with a and pumped them for information They all said Cyrillic X stop trying to find out It's the same thing I personally have never used probably indecent these words but I have heard other people sayThat rule should have been kept in mind ing them Larry got all of them in poems several years ago when Charlie Pritchard was in songs in expressions and of all things ussian linguists channeling work to he gave the English translations of them Once he showed her something he had That made the dissertation a very unusual ut he kept his hand over something else What dictionary In fact about 2 years ago our are you covering 'rshe asked Well it was a librarian said Hey here's a mention in a four-word expressioninRussian and one of bookseller's list of a dictionary of Russian the words began with an X Now you know that obscenities It was published in Cambridge it must have been nasty She insisted she had and it costs $10 00 Should we buy it to see what it said and he insisted that he So we bought it And it turned out to be couldn't show her To make a long and classia pirated edition of Larry's dissertation with fied story short and unclassified whfln he his front page torn off Someone else had apfinally removed his hand she said But that parently felt that it deserved a bigger makes sense And then proceeded to translate printing run it in a most improbable way Itsrealmeanirig P L 86-36 lalSOwfbtes Jmethlngf CRYPTOLOG can be given here as on Soviet prison slang But for the most part bleep my bleep or if you work in foreign languages at NSA you verb my noun and won't have any literature to read All you the verb isn't kiss will have -- if you're lucky -- is a list of But Pritch couldn't tell nasty words in the appropriate language but Ruby what it meant Instead without their definitions It's like telling he told her the five separate and you Here's a list of words that you're not distinct grammatical reasons why it supposed to translate and you're not even supdid'not mean what she said it did She posed to know why As you wifl see this still was unconvinced and he left fuming When really isn't the best way to handle the situation he returned to his desk and told others what had happened someone suggested Well Pritch Just as English dictionaries have not always why didn't you tell her 'hat it means NO listed the nasty words foreign-language diche said it wouldn't have done any good She tionaries produced by the various national lexicographical groups have not always contained would have said 'Pritch I asked you a civil question -- the least you could do is give me a those words in the foreign language Lately civil answer ' again as in English the situation has been Can NSA linguists learn from newspapers how chang ng The Chinese for example have to handle obscene expressions Maybe and maybe been including in their dictionaries together with English translations words which previously not BecauSe even the same newspaper can't decide how to handle them consistently Here are would have been considered to be unprintable a few qJ lotes from The Washingto n Post just But dictionaries are not always helpful The within a two-week period Dashes and hyphens Russian dictionaries that do list yolki-palki are a s in text which means Christmas trees and sticks sometimes limit their definition to the old o a commonly heard l2-letter epithet standby Indecent expression not used in o 'You m--- f--- you better open the door polite society Why don't they come out and or we'll blow your brains out''' say Don't use it because the first syllable sounds as though you were going to say something o ' Damn' cost 5 cents 'Hell' - 10 cents 'Goddam' was 25 What if I said ' else ' 'That's free ' Since dictionaries used to hedge like that o Joan Jett the band's rhythm guitarist the Agency's linguists ha to muddle through said 'We'll give him a raft of s--- as any way that they could L many soon as he walks in the door ''' years ago prepared a list of Russ an words Richard Pryor to tennis opponent Sander which if they showed up n the language Vanocur ' I'm gonna whip your a- ' material indicated that we weren't really interested in it Since thad a proThere are a lot of questions to ask here Such as if the epithet is that commonly fessorial turn of mind he thought it might be I r I August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 18 UNCLASSIFIED DOCID 4009800 UNCLASSIFIED heard why not pT'int the mother And what is M-plus-three-dashes F-plus-three dashes supposed to mean -- is it the same as the commonly heard epithet And exactly what word can Robert Mitchum say for free without putting money in Loretta Young's swear box In this inflationary age I'd like to know what I can get for free -- why not tell me And Richard Pryor's expression -- is a- really such a bad word o UNDERSTAND Insist on your right as a linguist to know every word in your language of specialization Insist on the need and the right to buy dirty dictionaries Don't be embarrassed at the words in them Everybody knows what a _ does for a living Don't guess at the meanings Did the guy in Arabic say that the other guy was a dirty son of a camel driver or did he say that he was doing something to or with a camel Remember don't be embarrassed You didn't say it he said it Well maybe it is because the same Washington Post printed the same week an article about an FCC ruling concerning seven commonly-used epi thets which range from three letters Then having understood what it says you'll to 12 But the article didn't list them So have to minutes before I started my talk here Dave o DECIDE ON THE TREATMENT You might have to Williams asked me if I could think of any ask your boss for guidance on this Some nasty three-letter words Yeah one is bosses don't like to see words like A-dash-dash Oh that's not so bad Well in print I myself feel funny about saying then how about b lee p words like ----- into this mike So What if there aren't enough clues In our you will have to decide which of the business we tend to measure things count following you want to do letters see how long dashes are count the o Hem and haw The traditional treatment dots What good does it do if we read beating around the bush Paraphrase IIt--f II First dash is too short Use nice words Don't give the reader second dash is too long Or m---f--- any idea what the words meant Not enough letters Or you Is the word really that long or is it o Be a tease Give a minimum amount of a phrase clues Maybe the correct first letter but a misleading number of dashes So if you have trouble figuring out the As in Everybody knows what a c---- does nasty words in your own language when not enough for a living clues are given what do you think it is like o Use the correct number of dashes and when you're dealing with foreign languages When hope that your reader gets the idea someone uses an expression that is defined in That dirty c--------- If the reader the foreign dictionary as An improper expresgets the idea that's okay If he doesn't sion and you have no idea why Or what about he can ask around when you do know what it means but are advised to treat it in your translation as Obscenity Come right out and say it If he called What good does that do your reader It has been the other guy a he called him suggested that when it is impossible to give a 50 put it down that 'way That's what they do in court The judge the actual o o o o o o o o o o o o o o translation tells the witness to say exactly the of a forwords that the defendant said and the eign nasty court stenographer puts them into the word it record They're only words might be nice to Why then when giving my word of advice have something like a Richter scale of improper did I use the traditional method of handling words -- ranging from 1 Convivial chuckle to these words -- hypocrisy Why when telling you to come right out and say it did I use 9 Punch in the mouth Perhaps we could a long dash and not come out and say it mycall it the 5chichter scale Then in a transself Was it because c--------- isn't in lation instead of saying Obscenity we Webster's Third Because you can say or could say Speaking in Polish or whatever he called his conversational partner a imply certain words but feel inhibited about Schichter-4 Well that gives the reader some seeing them in print Why as I try to explain idea -- at least it wasn't a 9 I realize that away my hypocrisy do I have a mental image of any scale won't work all the time For example Wallace Beery completely flustered saying among friends or in a John Wayne movie you Aw-w-w-w shucks I can tell you and tell cross-eyed sonnovabitch might be only a myself not to be embarrassed That we didn't Schichter-l if that high but elsewhere invent the word That it has been around for at least 500 years That everyone knows it In the absence of any hard-and-fast scale why don't I just give you my own word of advice anyway But aw-w-w-w shucks From one practicing linguist to another First I I _a_ _ _ a__ o _ o _ _ _ a _ _ _ _ _ O August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 19 UNCLASSIFIED __O_Q_ _O_ DOCID 4009800 U CLASSIFIED WHAT ARE TREY UP TO ANYWAY P L 86-36 CAA News by Upeoming CAA- events AUGUST t may be the only secret openmeeting in the building Certainly it's the only one I know of The CAA Board meeting that is How can it be secret and open too Well sometime ago the CAA Board decided to open up its meetings to the public and let a little sunshine in That's the open part But since we started this policy nobody else comes to the meetings to see what we do or to tell us what we ought to do That's the secret part Obviously the word hasn't gotten around about what wild things happen at CAA Board meetings Seriously though folks you are invited to come along and voice your opinions about what the CAA should be doing what special interest groups ought to be formed etc All right you say where and when is the next meeting Funny you should ask because as I write this early June I don't really know We usually hire one of the conference rooms on the second or third floor and the room will vary according to what is available Say maybe that's why nobody comes -- they can't find us If you want to know where the next meeting will be held you can always ask one of the officers Or better yet join CAA and get your very own announcement mailed directly to you If you're shy just watch the announcements on the CLO bulletin boards there are four of them one in each building # The opening day ribbon has been cut all the festivities have died down and the brand-new remoted system is now operational The guy who used to give those fancy speeches about what the system was going to do has moved on to some other project What happens now What is it really like to live with a remoted system day by day What are the real-life problems that will now be encountered by the people who are responsible for making the system work on a daily operational basis Will Mary leave George Will Fido survive surgery These and other questions will be discussed when Whitney Reed and BS give us an inside look at Life With a Remoted System Maybe our strategy is all wrong Maybe we should see how long we can keep our string of unattended meetings unbroken We could have monthly changing times and rooms Maybe offer a challenge cup to whoever solves our rota and actually shows up at our meeting place It's a thought o SEPTEMBER I The whole subject of NSA initiatives on support to combat operations both in Europe and in the Pacific is' scheduled to be explored byl I lof V4 Check your nearest CLO buZZetin board for e x act dates pZaces and times CAA members unZZ receive no tification by matZo Communications Analysis Association Board President I I President-Elect David Gaddy 3247s Treasurer TimothyMurphy 379ls Secretary Board me bor August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 20 UNCLASSIFIED I I P L 86-36 DOCID 4009800 L UNCLASSIFIED -4 86-36 v' cD D RcBv' Tt NY - tH 5 f' i i 1' ' f- L 1 drd ' To the Editor CRYPTOLOG I am writing to cO ngratulate you on an absolutely smashing article in CRYPToOLOG I refer to The Polyhedral War by illustrated bYJ Please pass my well done to both of them I recognized immediately an old friend in the 'pentagonal dodecahedron which the author calls 'a pitiful polyhedron The model is a delight'ful toy and I have spent many enjoyable hours flexing the many dodecahedra made for me and my friends One question What do the other models do Derek Wee son Editor's reply Now I know how Ann Landers feels when she has to decide whether she has a real letter or one from the boys at Yale Assuming that this is legitimate big assumption they haven't used those envelopes in years thank you for your kind remarks In reply to your question they do pretty much what the rest of us do -- occupy space 't v I r'l ft 'f r l l1r rVIl1D'I JrtZf Editor's repZy Your note puts us in rather a quandary Your entry is not only the best one we received this month It's the only one In any event we are required to carry out the terms of our offer and award you a CRYPTOLOG subscription the crumby prize you refer to Trouble is we can't find your name in Locator's files The last Mouse family we knew worked in the sixth wing of B Building at Arlington Hall more than 20 years ago they used to love those cheeseand-peanut-butter crackers Norman K would leave 'in his desk among his galoshes and not quite empty Coke bottles Any kin - - U 4-B 5-H 6-A 7-L 8-Y 9-0 10-G ll-K Solution to Match Them Up by Tony Melzer CRYPTOLOG June 1977 l-f 2-d -T Amin-Uganda Asad-Syria Bhutto-Pakistan 12-S 13-N 14-R lS-V 16-J 17-g 18-U Boumediene-Algeria Castro-Cuba Daoud-Afghanistan Desai-India Fahd-Saudi Arabia Fukuda-Japan Geisel-Brazil Giscard-France Hassan-Morocco Houphouet-Boigny--Ivory Coast Lopez Portillo-Mexico Marcos-Philippines Mengistu-Ethiopia Mobutu-Zaire Morales Burmudez-Peru U 19-C 20-c 21-e 22-P 23-M 24-Q 25- I 26-a 27-Z 28-W 29-b 30-X 3l-F 32-D 33-E Neto-Angola Numayri-Suda Nyerere-Tanzania Qadhafi-Libya Rabin-Israel Ramgoolam-Mauritius Sadat-Egypt Senghor-Somali Siad-Senegal Soares-Portugal Suarez-Spain Smith-Rhodesia Tindemans-Belgium Vide la-Argentina lia Urrahman-Bangladesh U August 77 CRYPTOLOG Page 21 PI-JUN 77-53-25371 UNCLASSIFIED DOCID 40cr918SrrlQiUQI -- - - - - - -feP--SEGR t D CJ __ --L_ _ 'fillS BOCtJl IEN'f CON'fl INS 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