e s1e11 - lilaJVVl IGlall1 l Bl lWVV i lfiWCBf lrl JGJV l3l JGJIDl5 ID WIJ ' ll f OO 'W l1 'Wfi1 csCE um11m cJQllJ £Dc J EJisB EARLY PROPOSAL FOR SATELLITE REMOTI JG •• • • Jose h E Horn •• ••••••• 1 - THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CODEWORD MATERIAL JQP REf eclassified and Approved for Release by NSA on 08-23-2021 pursuant to E O 13526 MDR Case ffllC 98P 8BfJDR'f I Non - Published Monthly by Pl Techniques and Standards for the Personnel of Operations JANUARY 1978 VOL V NO 1 8P 810111T Responsive illll• l IIF EO 3 3b 3 PL 86-36 50 USC 3605 • William II llolU YJB DISPOSITION FORM file No C05 08S 62 19 Se-pte• ber 1962 • The attached p•pn is submitted a s a think ieu not a proposal The devotion of tille to con idering the statements ude in the inclo su r-e was 110tiv•ted by the day• to•day pressures -on SlGINT activities and the feeling that NSA •should have • lon1 ranee plan vhicb steps beyond the many SIGIHT development plans of varying scope that are pt eva lent today thl Ough out the SIGIHf Coaunity As far as known the • idea as prennted is different from any current developaent plans JOSEPH E HORN C03 29 August 1962 JOSEPH E HORH Srt 3723 C03 January 78 • CRYPTOLOG • Pafe l IIRIIIP a n P rs sermz • tan 111 8iilllll January 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 2 EO 3 3b 3 PL 86-36 50 USC 3605 8D08IJ1 Ld SS I Zi lJ JI 11221 IHI llil il6Rlf January 78 • CRYPTOLOG Page 3 EO 3 3b 3 PL 86-36 50 USC 3605 81lflltl Jlli aa sa • hi CSl L ii 2 222 L llll i__ __ January 78 • CRYPTOLOG Page 4 • EO 3 3b 3 PL 86-36 50 use 3605 '11'11111 IL PI I 11 • ii • II 11 PI t EO 3 3b 3 PL 86-36 50 USC 3605 fillHiiBllf W M N •• Ill January 78 CRYPTOLOG • Page S ·--------1 Non - Responsive ill RIIT 1111m s m sa z z a nr r 1 ·• I EO 3 3b 3 PL 86-36 50 USC 360 SECRET PL 86-36 50 USC 3605 • OF N A • One of our constant readers and almost as constant contributors is also a pack rat He has saved for example all the back i sues of the Agency• s QuarterZy Managermmt Revier J Recently he compared the issue for the fourth quarter of FY73 and the issue for the st cond quarter of FY77 _and came up with some interesting I figures that he wants to submit without comment Ed How many people are there in your COSC field today and how has that number changed over the · last 4 years The from two issues 4 Management Review civilians acuigned following figures were taken years apart of the Quart rly Only fields with 100 or more to them are shown -· NEW AND IMPROVED AID$ FOR IOOl BR EARING Vitfioi V laki • Bookbreaking and Cryp Hnguistics Coordinator P16 1§§1 January 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 8 SFSIUEr IL If srrr iii 7 7 2 Iii JNon - Responsive C C III 2 SPF IT 1 RI T 2111111211 IL iii - · Never mind everto havpened Baby Jane what or even the CAA t o · · Wayne Stoffel P14 What Ewer Happened to like a good J ash COPES I ollection by objectives seeme d Ldea We were facing a future of declining_ _ --- 1 A i W 1 ' iUMl l Sl tJ ·c5 t etd Jo tji_£01 nis · W h e r e v eirJ --I•t• s•e·e·m·e·d-l-o·g-ic_a_l_t_o_g_i_v_e_t_h_e_c_o_l_l_e_c_t_o_r_mo•r•e 1 • information and bring him into the decision process about when to collect and especially when to stop collecting Any traffic analyst - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - • - k n o w s that the way to beef up collection is to There was never any real question that e beef up the information flow to the collector were going to be cut - - in collection posi-t ions -- improve the technical support Whenever you in field stations and in TA processing v'hople give him more information the collector does a So why not try to be smarter about assigning better job of collecting for you So why not collection Have you ever seen an intercept tell him what you are trying to do and what you operator sitting at his collection p ition for expect to get out of the intercept 8 hours waiting for n target that never came So that's what we tried to do -- decide as · ' s bad as carefully as we could what our collection objectives were and then set up our tasking so that the collector understood what the objectives were and when they were to be considered satisfied Well then what happened to COPES -We're using the system - - but it doesn't seem to be ·· ------------ EO 3 3b 3 PL 86-36 50 USC 3605 January 7 • CRYPTOLOG • Page 12 TOP 81@RIT l JUDHtfz i 5 1171 II T Iii 11111 lilt iOtiflR liJ fTIAh EO 3 3b 3 PL 86- 36 50 USC 3605 working Over and over one hears that the assignments SCOt don't match the target Other cases are l ft in a developmental status for extend perio9f years l even though the targets _ ________ _ seem stable and developed Is it a lack of understanding of COPES Unlikely since over 1000 people have taken the COPES course MR-410 I've heard it said that COPES sed properly would cause you to lose collection resources I think that's shortsighted as l said above because there was never any question about our losing cover only here and a events turned out we didn't have a lot of choice about that Our real choices were in how much of our target we retained while cover was reduced I've heard it said that because COPE was new and people were resistant to change it would never fly But that's hard to believe too because it's been several years now and it isn't new anymore and NSA people are more adaptive to change than we like to think • it's a way of life with us having to adapt continuou5ly to changes in the target and in our situation Then why haven't the middle people taken hold of COPES and made it their own Did we train all the workers in COPES and neglect to teach the middle managers how to use it as a tool Or is there some other problem Is the bookkeeping too involved or too extensive Does COPES require a stronger traffic-analysis effort than we presently can manage Or is it some• thing else What do you think January 78 CRYPTOLOG Page 13 I Non - 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