DECLASSIFICATION OF AS-4A RF TERMINALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03424A000500060015-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Content Type: MEMO

Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/22 :CIA-RDP78-03424A000500060015-6
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TO :Chief, IN*~{ ~t ^tratiYe Staff, CC
ATTIC sCLssifiaatia~n Cerztrol Oftiaer
Chief, Engineering Staff, OC
c]sssifiastion o! AS-4A RF Ta
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1. On 27 Ne4y 1958 the A8-4 equipveat and rested q~1 technique ~rere
approved !or declassification. The Tratrsait ~' Teraina!, A~-~A, and the
Receive Ia' 'Derariaal, AR-~1A, of the A8-IM system, noir classified B~tE'R
operate with the ware Q~f[ teahni4are
as the A8 These terminals ccritain the same equipreat as the AS-4
except for the additic+n of error a?rreatiarn circuits. Error correction
circuits are a~a- widely la~vvn affi used in the eleatro?ic field.
Z. In vie~- of these !sots, it is np logger feasible to consider the
~' terminals od the AS-$A system It is recaaradad, therefore,
drat the Transarit ~' Teraina!, AT-~1-, and the Reaei~re R!' Tsrainal, AR-4A,
be deaLasified.
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Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/22 :CIA-RDP78-03424A000500060015-6