MILITARY NEWS: RADIO DECEPTION AS A MEANS OF RADIO COUNTERACTION, BY ENGINEER COLONEL M. MASTEROV

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• Publication Date: February 5, 1962
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
5 FEB 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR.: The Director of Central Intelligence
.SUBJECT , MILITARY NEWS: "Radio Deception as a Means of
Radio Counteraction", by Engineer Colonel
M. Masterov
1. Enclosed is a verbatim translation of an article which
appeared in the Soviet Ministry of Defense publication Collection
of Articles of the Journal Military News (Voyennyy Vestnik .
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from regimental commander upward.
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COUNTRY: USSR
SUBJECT: MILITARY NEWS: "Radio Deception as a
Means of Radio Counteraction", by Engineer
Colonel M. Masterov
DATE OF INFO: January 1961
APPRAISAL OF
CONTENT: Documentary
SOURCE: A reliable source (B)
Folrlowing is a verbatim translation of an article entitled "Radio
Deception as a Means of Radio Counteraction", by Engineer Colonel
M. Masterov. This article appeared in Issue No. 34, 1961, of the
Soviet military publication Collection of Articles of the Journal
Military News (Voyennyy Vestnik.) This publication is classified
SECRET by the Soviets and is published by the USSR Ministry of
Defense.
According to the Preface, Issue No. 34 was sent for typesetting
on 14 December 1960 and released to the printer on 25 January 1961.
The Preface states that articles express the opinions of their authors
and are published as a form of discussion. Distribution of Issue
No. 34 was to officers from regimental commander upward.
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Radio Deception as a Means of Radio Counteraction
by
Engineer Colonel M. Masterov
In the last phase. of the engagement, at the time of the battle
of Stalingrad in World War II, the headquarters of the 6th German
Army tried to establish direct radio contact with Field Marshal
Manstein's grouping. For a long time, the radio station of the
headquarters of the 6th Army called a collaborating station
(vzaimodeystvuyushchiy korrespondent) to make contact, but could
not get a reply. Then our radio intelligence personnel (radiorazvedchik),
posing as the station being called, established a two-way link with
the radio station of the headquarters of the 6th Army and during
the course of 24 hours received 16 messages from it amounting to
over 1500 groups.
Other instances of radio deception (dezinformatsiya) are also
well known, but they were isolated, and on the whole, contributed
little to the disorganization of the enemy's ability to control and
coordinate.
In the postwar period, ever-increasing importance is attached
to radio deception. For example, in the strategic command-staff
exercise in 1959, the headquarters of one of the fronts allotted
10 organic (tabelnyy) shortwave radio sets of medium power and
12 radio-jamming sets in the shortwave band for radio deception
and radio-jamming. During the course of the exercise, when the
attacking "Eastern" army was conducting battles to liquidate a bridge-
head on the eastern bank of the Dnepr River, the "West" unexpectedly
employed massed radio-jamming of the main army radio networks
and of two-station links (radionapravleniye). While the "East" was
trying to reestablish its interrupted radio communications, the
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"West", carrying out radio deception, made contact with the "enemy".
In the.-most tense period of..,the...operation they transmitted up to 90
training cipher messages (uchebnaya.shifrogramma).amounting to
..more than 5.000. groups, as a result of which they misled the "enemy's"
..radio stations for about 100 hours.
Another example. On an aviation exercise in the Carpathian
.Military District in 1958, false commands were transmitted to
..fighter aircraft in order to deceive the "enemy" bombers. The
objective was attained: the "enemy" bombers took appropriate
countermeasures (cover, maneuver etc.) according to the, false
commands they had intercepted.
Radio deception is effective if it is practiced unexpectedly on
the enemy in critical periods of a battle or an operation, when the
enemy's radio and radio relay communications are loaded to
maximum capacity with operational conversations or with the
interchange of cipher messages, and especially when there is
loss of radio contact between headquarters and control points.
It is possible to enter into communications-.with .enemy radio
stations under the guise of a main, subordinate, or neighboring
radio station.
It is advisable to employ the first two methods primarily in
command and headquarters radio networks and the third in col-
laborating radio networks. In headquarters and command radio
networks and two-station links, contact is made on the principle
of the subordination of radio stations of the lower headquarters
to the higher (main radio stations). Collaborating radio com-
munication is conducted either by special radio networks or by
collaborating units and large units entering into communications
with adjacent headquarters radio .networks.
It is most convenient to enter into communications under the
guise of a main radio station when it appears that as a result of
moving, defective equipment, or inattention of the crew (team)
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or the duty shift, it does not answer the repeated
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s of subordinate
stations.
It is most advisable to enter into communications under the guise
of a subordinate radio station at those times when the subordinate
radio.stations, for any reason, do not answer the calls of the main
radio station of the radio network. (two-station link).
When trying to enter into communications under the guise of a
neighboring radio station, one should distinguish the principles of
organization of the radio networks. If the enemy's collaborating
radio networks are organized on receiver wavelengths when each
headquarters has its own individual and rigidly fixed frequencies
and callsigns, then by having complete data on such radio networks
one can make contact without particular difficulty with any of them.
But if collaborating radio networks are working on general fre-
quencies, then as in the first two instances, it is most advisable to
make use of unstable contact or the loss of contact between collabora-
ting stations.
If communications between the stations of an enemy radio net-
work (two-station links) are stable, radio deception is not advisable,
for the enemy can immediately detect an ''outsider" station and take
appropriate measures for the protection of his radio network.
During the course of working with the enemy, such measures
may be recommended as, for example, requesting a repeat of cipher
messages transmitted earlier to the actual stations, the transmission
of long cipher messages (code messages) to the enemy with correct
addressees, assigning long breaks in communications::to.enemy radio
stations (assigning hours of operation), and others.
Radio equipment assuring dependable communications with enemy
radio stations are selected for radio deception. It is very important
that the characteristics of emission of the sets selected should cor-
respond to the characteristics of enemy radio sets. Any deviation
from the accepted form of transmission, alteration in the stability
of frequency, tone, and other technical characteristics may give away
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the deception. No lessimportant.is.the train
It is clear that. only radio operators. of -the highs t grad e Pco le .
conversant with the rules of the enemy army's radio traffic, mu tely
be allowed to do this work.
The fundamental principles of employing radio deception are
surprise and concentrating it in the most crucial periods of a battle
(operation) and in the most important enemy radio networks t
station links). (wo-
The surprise factor has great importance. As experience shows,
it is advisable to employ various methods of radio deception simul-
taneously with radio-jamming.
By the term concentration one_ should understand the simultaneous
putting into action of all forces and equipment allotted for radio
deception. At the same time their efforts must be aimed at dis-
organizing radio communications in specific large units. It is not
advisable to dissipate resources among units.. It is essential to concentrate the main efforts networks
the dis-
ruption of those radio networks and two-station links, the of whose work materially affects the control and coordination of the
enemy groupings that are most important at a given moment. Let the
us note that it is advisable to make use of moments when the control
of enemy troops is based mainly on radio communic
duplicated by other means. ations not
For organizing and carrying out effective radio deception, it is
important to have full data about the enemy's radio system, to which of his radio stations belong to one or another radio net know
the list of frequencies and callsigns being used, the procedure network r
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their change, the system of addressing and identification (arolir
P ovaniye),
Radio deception is a difficult and complex matter. It is an
of its own which consists in the ability to deceive an a art
enemy, and it is necessary to master it in peacetime,?{Perienced
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