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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755
Serial:
S1/041
25 May 1984
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SUBJECT:
CENTER LANE Product Related to the NSA COMSEC
Organization's Mission
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TO:
Commander
U.S. Army
Intelligence and Security Command
ATTN: Chief, SSPD
Fort George G. Meade, MD
20755
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1.
The NSA COMSEC Doctrine and Threat
Assessment Organization uses intelligence information from a
wide variety of sources. This information is used to assess
the foreign threat to U. S. communications security. To
accurately assess this threat, we require information about
certain foreign targets (e.g., foreign cryptanalytic organi-
zations and activities)
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Foreign security organizations implement and
enforce extreme security measures to protect these targets,
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We work closely
With many different intelligence information collection
organizations, including the CENTER LANE program, so that
our requirements are reasonable for collection and so that
scarce and sometimes extremely delicate U.S. collection
resources are efficiently utilized against difficult targets.
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2.
The product provided to us from the
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CENTER LANE program as a result of our tasking has been
impressive,
The CENTER LANE product has
addressed most of our requirements, and the value of the
information to our threat assessment mission ranges from nil
to very valuable. The bulk of this information we are
unable to corroborate from other intelligence sources;
NSA review(s) completed.
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however, we have been able to determine that some of the
information is amazingly accurate, whereas some of the
information is erroneous. At the present time, the greatest
value of the CENTER LANE product is in developing requirements
for other collection resources and to suggest alternative ways
of interpreting information from other sources.
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3.
We believe that in the future
the CENTER LANE program will continue to be useful and
valuable to our threat assessment mission for acquiring
information concerning these targets.
SG11
Director
COMSEC Doctrine
and Threat Assessment
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