RICHARD HELMS TO RECEIVE BAKER AWARD

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a publication of SECURITY AFFAIRS SUPPORT ASSOCIATION
Volume 8, Number 2
April 1987
RICHARD HELMS TO RECEIVE BAKER AWARD
With special pride SASA is pleased to announce that the
Honorable Richard McGarrah Helms will receive the 1987
William Oliver Baker Award for "his enduring contributions to
National Security and Freedom". The award ceremony will take
place at the SASA Annual Testimonial Dinner which will be held
at the Fort Myer Officers Club, Arlington, VA, on Wednesday 20
May 1987.
Ambassador Helms is the fourth distinquished American to
receive the coveted SASA Medal of Achievement. Previous
awardees were Dr. William O. Baker (1984), Senator Barry
Goldwater (1985) and Ambassador Vernon Walters (1986).
A native son of Pennsylvania, upon graduating in 1935 from
Williams College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his
junior year, Ambassador Helms entered the fourth estate as a staff
correspondent with the United Press in London where he served
for several months before being transferred to the Berlin Bureau.
There he remained until 1937 when he returned to the United
States. He continued his journalistic career with the Indianapolis
Times until July 1942 when he was commissioned as a Lieutenant
(jg) in the U.S. Navy. In August 1943, he embarked on his
distinguished three decade intelligence career as a member of the Office of Strategic Services, Washington, D.C.,
later serving with the OSS in London, Paris, Wiesbaden and Berlin. Upon his relief from active duty in 1946, Mr.
Helms joined the successor organization to the OSS and subsequently on 18 September 1947 became one of the first
members of the new Central Intelligence Agency. Rising through the ranks of the CIA, Mr. Helms was appointed as
the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence in April 1965 by President Johnson who subsequently appointed him as
the Director in June 1966. He was reappointed to the post by President Nixon in 1969, serving in that position until
his Senate confirmation as Ambassador to Iran in February 1973.
His ambassadorial service continued until his retirement from the
government in January 1977.
Ambassador Helms has continued his devoted service in the
national interest as a member of the President's Commission on
Strategic Forces. He is also chairing the Advisory Committee of
the Nancy Reagan Drug Abuse Fund and is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Middle East Institute.
In 1983, Mr. Helms was awarded the William J. Donovan
Medal and subsequently during that same year received our
country's highest recognition in the national security field, the
National Security Medal, presented by President Ronald Reagan.
SASA is proud to join the honored assembly of those who have
previously paid tribute to Ambassador Richard Helms. Plan to
join us at the Award Dinner which will be attended by members of
the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the
Congressional Intelligence Committees and other key military
and civilian representatives of the Intelligence Community.
Invitations to the SASA membership are in the mail. ?
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SASA AWARD PROGRAM
This years SASA Award Program is the fourth in the
annual series which was inaugurated in May 1984. The
first to be honored in the program was the distinguished
scientist, Dr. William O. Baker, former President and
Chairman of the Board, Bell Laboratories.
In July 1985, the award was presented to another of
monumental stature, Senator Barry Goldwater. Pres-
entations to both of those former honorees were made
by then Director-of _Central-Intelligence, Mr. William J.
-Casey.
Last year, on 21 May, another towering U.S. intelli-
gence figure, Ambassador Vernon (Dick) Walters,
received the award from the Honorable James R. Schle-
singer, former Secretary of Defense and Director of
Central Intelligence.
The SASA Medal of Achievement, now designated
"the William Oliver Baker Award" in honor of its first
recipient, was created "to recognize service or accomp-
lishment of an extraordinary or highly exceptional
nature, whether to the Intelligence Community, or a
component thereof, which benefits the community as a
whole". The award is intended to serve as public recog-
nition of service to the nation and at the same time, to
encourage and acknowledge service on behalf of the
national intelligence endeavor by those outside of
government whose contributions to the national secur-
ity have become increasingly important. ?
THE WILLIAM OLIVER
BAKER AWARD
PURPOSE
The award has been inaugurated by SASA in order to promote
excellence in the quality of the intelligence and national security
activities of the United States government and associated endeavors
in the private sector by recognizing exceptional achievement by
individuals contributing to these affairs.
ELIGIBILITY
Members of the government, or private industry, and of the
academic community are eligible to receive the award provided that
a substantial portion of their professional activity is devoted to
national security affairs. No time limit will be set for the period of
such service as is being recognized.
Recipients of departmental or community awards should be
considered but it is not intended that the Baker Award duplicate in
any way an existing award or award system. In the event that
justification for a nomination rests primarily upon classified infor-
mation, special arrangements will be made to accommodate it, but
an unclassified version will be required for the accompanying
citation.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Awardees will be selected on the basis of the following:
- Sustained excellence in their contribution to national security
affairs over a considerable period of time, or a single achievement of
extraordinary merit.
- Contributions in the scientific and technical disciplines or in
other fields essential to the enhancement of national security
interest.
- Technical enhancements of unusual significance, management
proficiency of a high order, or the development or application of
techniques that permit cost savings of substantial magnitude.
SELECTION PROCEDURES
Annually, the President of SASA will invite the departments
and agencies of the Intelligence Community, the President's For-
eign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Scientific, Industrial and
Academic communities to nominate individuals considered best
qualified for the award.
The nominations will be reviewed by an awards panel selected
by the SASA Board of Directors. Representatives of the Secretary
of State, Secretary of Defense, the PFIAB and the Director of
Central Intelligence will be asked to participate with the SASA
panel annually in the final selection of awardee/s.
PRESENTATION
The awardee/s will be honored at an annual dinner meeting of
the Association at which the "William Oliver Baker" medal will be
presented.
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SASA SYMPOSIUM OPENS 21 APRIL
DR. LEW ALLEN TO SPEAK
The opening session of the SPRING'87 SYMPOSIUM is only a
few days away. You still have time to register. For SASA, the theme
"TRADING WITH THE COMMUNIST BLOC" is an
f
ied, non-intelligence/security
uncharted area. It is the only unclassi
oriented program we have ever presented---a program being
cooperatively conducted with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Europe, Mr. Frank Vargo.
Why are we doing it? Because the theme is timely. It affords an
unusual opportunity to examine international developments
beyond our traditional intelligence and security involvements--
developments which relate to our national security in the broadest
sense.
The credentials of the professionals who will explore the theme
with us are second to none. Among them are key figures from
government, industry and academe. An address by Dr. Lew Allen
"The National Security Implications of the Export Program" will be one of the many highlights of
the program. Also to speak are Mr. James Moore, Senior Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy; Dr. Jan Various,
Director Plan Econ; Dr. Gary Hufbauer, Institute for International
Economics, Georgetown University; Mr. Paul McCarthy, Vice
President,Eastern Europe Group, Chemical Bank, N.Y.; Jeffrey A. Burt,
Esq., Arnold & Porter; Mr. Roger Majak, Manager, Federal Government
Affairs, TEKTRONIX, Inc.; Ms. Leyla Woods, International Econo-
mist, National Trade Administration; Mr. John Kiser, President,
Kiser Research, Inc.; Dr. Elliott Hurwitz, President, Elliott Hurwitz
and Co.; Mr. George Holliday, International Trade and Finance,
Congressional Research Services; and Mr. Anatoli Welihozkiy,
Director, Foreign Technology Assessment Division, Department
of Commerce.
For those of our members who may not likely become
involved in a mercantile relationship with any communist
country (probably most) we hasten to point out that they will
still find attending the symposium to be a valuable experience.
We believe also that there are many, particularly non--
members, who would avail themselves of the opportunity to
participate if made aware of the program.---So please pass
the word along. If you or they need further information,
April, Naval Surface Weapons Center, Silver Spring,
Maryland. Both days, Registration opens 0730 --
Program starts 0900).?
please contact SASA Headquarters.
Our Spring '87 Symposium should be a winner! We
hope you will be able to join us' at White Oak (21-22
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MAY - BUSY FORUM MONTH
Mr. Charles A. Hawkins, Jr.
Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense (I)
Mr. Robert L. Prestel
Deputy Director, R&E NSA
After a lapse of two years, the Assistant Secretary of Defense C'I has
announced that the Seventh Defense Intelligence Technical Forum (DIT-
FORVII) will be held on 11-12 May 1987 at The Defense Intelligence Analysis
Center, Bolling AFB.
The National Security Agency has announced that it will hold its Fifth
Research and Engineering Industrial Symposium (REIS V) at the agency
headquarters on 13-14 May 1987.
In his letter announcing DITFOR VII, Mr. Latham, said that"DITFOR's
objective is to bring together representatives of military commands, DoD
technical organizations, and representatives from industry to improve the
coordination and implementation of the U.S. technological response to the
intelligence challenges posed by modern warfare. Sharing the knowledge and
experience in this area will aid in the identification of complementary activity,
enhance the mission performance of existing technology, and highlight key
areas for new technology applications and initiatives."
In separate correspondence, Mr. Charles Hawkins, Deputy Assistant Secre-
tary of Defense (I), observed that the last DITFOR had been held two years ago
and added that "since then significant changes have occurred in both national
and tactical intelligence support capabilities for military operational forces.
Further, we are currently undergoing a significant change with regard to the
organizational structure of the Department of Defense. The Unified and Speci-
fied Commands will have a more direct voice and influence over the direction
that the development of future intelligence support capabilities takes."
Mr. Hawkins continued by describing the program. "With this as a basis,
DITFOR VII will present a program on "NATIONAL AND TACTICAL
INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT FOR MILITARY OPERATIONS". The
program will specifically address the present and future means that are and will
be available for supporting U.S. operational forces. Collection, processing, and
production capabilities will be examined as well as the means to disseminate
information across the battlefield. We will also develop a notional example of
how national and tactical support capabilities may tie together. Further, we will
present an overview of new technologies and research and development trends
to show where we are going with technology and what technology has to offer.
We will highlight areas of serious concern where we do not have solutions so
that a dialogue can be established among interested government and industry
representatives to solve these critical problems. The overall DITFOR VII
program will also be structured to highlight how the new DoD reorganization
will impact on the manner by which such problems will be addressed in the
future."
The NSA letter announcing REIS V stated that "The nuturing of a strong,
close relationship with industry is increasingly important in the current high
technology environment. Toward this end, we must increase government and
corporate research in mutually beneficial areas, and simultaneously increase the
breadth and depth of the national technology base....."
Both DITFOR VII and REIS V are classified forums for which all govern-
ment and industry attendees must have the necessary security clearances. ?
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SNIDER RETURNS
TO THE HILL
After serving almost 10 years as "Number Two" in
the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Policy),BRITT SNIDER has returned from whence
he came in October 1977--Capitol Hill. Mr. Snider, an
attorney by profession, has assumed the position of
Minority Counsel with the staff of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence. Prior to serving as the
Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Counterintelligence and Security under General Dick
Stilwell and subsequently under Craig Alderman, the
present Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Policy),
Mr. Snider performed counselor services for the House
Government Operations Subcommittee on Govern-
ment Information; the Senate Intelligence Committee;
and the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitu-
tional Rights.
During his tenure at the Pentagon, Mr. Snider had
principal policy cognizance of counterintelligence,
security classification, industrial security as well as per-
sonnel, physical and operations security. He also
chaired the interagency National Disclosure Policy
Committee which passes upon sales of classified mil-
itary systems to foreign governments. In 1985, he
served as the Staff Director of the OSD Commission to
Review Security Practices and Procedures (The Stil-
well Commission).
SASA wishes Mr. Snider well in his new role. His
replacement has not yet been named. ?
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Almost a year and a half ago, in our December 1985
issue of Colloquy, SASA published an editorial
"LET'S GET ON WITH IT". Unfortunately, it con-
tinues to be relevant.
Apparently from newspaper accounts, still chafing
over National Security Decision Directive No. 145
which the President signed 17 September 1984, the
House Science and Technology Committee and the
House Government Operations Committee are again
sponsoring a bill which would have the effect of
markedly altering the arrangements provided for in the
cited Presidential directive. Their first sortee against
NSDD 145 was launched in the 99th Congress as HR
2889. It failed to pass. The newest and similar version of
the former bill is coincidentially designated HR 145, the
"Computer Security Act of 1987".
Were it not for the fact that the President in 1984,
established realistic organizational mechanisms to
address the modern day computer security threat con-
fronting all elements of government, HR 145 might be a
start in that direction. But the point is that the President
has and it is fair to observe that two and a half years after
the signing of NSDD 145, those mechanisms are in
place and are working. This is not to say that enormous
strides have been made and the computer security barn
door is now securely closed. It will take-several years
before substantial protection for our massive govern-
ment data handling and storage activities is realized. It
will take longer if those who have been commissioned
by the President to cope with the problem have to deal
with the inertia created by proposals that the task be
accomplished in some other way.
In his NSDD 145, the President made available to all
elements of government the very best of this nation's
expertise in computer security.---expertise that has
been honed sharply by first hand experience with "the
threat". No mistake should be made about the quality
of the threat. It is high and must, if prudence prevails,
be assumed to be directed at not only national defense
data targets but information which is processed and
stored in computers throughout government. There is
much unclassified government data which could if
acquired by an adversary be used to the detriment of
our national security in ways not considered in the past.
The high quality threat demands the highest quality
response we can make. We believe NSDD 145 makes
that response possible. Any impediments to the effec-
tive quest for real computer security throughout
government should be removed. As we urged in
December 1985--"Let's get on with it." ?
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COMOAT APPLE REUNION
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS ? 25 -26 SEPTEMBER 1987
Committee Chairman, Major General Doyle Larson, USAF (Ret.) has announced the
25-26 September 1987 reunion of all members of the Combat Apple crews and others
associated with CA operations in the Gulf of Tonkin-during the period 1967 and 1975. The
event will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first CA mission in the Southeast Asia area.
San Antonio will be the focal point of reunion activities which will include a dinner at the Hilton Palacio
Del Rio on 25 September, festivities at Kelly AFB during the day on 26 September and conclude that
evening with an USAFSS/ESC Alumni Association Annual Banquet at the Lackland AFB Officers Club.
Further information on the reunion may be obtained from General Larson [phone] or Lt. Col. Jerry
McKenna [phone]. ?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SASA!
The eighth anniversary of the founding of the association will be celebrated on 17 April 1987 and despite
its brief history, SASA has much to celebrate. Our membership, both group and individual has continued
to grow at a healthy rate. The new SASA SPONSOR program has been even more successful than had been
anticipated. We have implemented our Security Support Program and are confident that through it SASA
will be able to provide significant assistance on industrial security matters to both industry and govern-
ment. New forums including executive dinners and other opportunities for those in industry and govern-
ment to join together to share views on issues effecting the national intelligence endeavor are being planned.
All in all the 8th has been a productive year. For that happy state of affairs, our President, John
McMahon, our board of directors and the SASA staff wishes to express out warmest thanks for your
continued confidence and support. ?
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Chairman of the Board ............................................. Vincent N. Cook
President ....................................................... John N. McMahon
Editor ....................................................... John E. Morrison, Jr.
Associate Editor ................................................ William H. Parsons
Production Coordinator .............................................. Mary Simpson
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INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY: HOW IT ALL BEGAN
by
DAVID WINFRED GADDY
Guest Historian
Examples of espionage, cryptography, and "cloak and dagger" work
abound in ancient history, as those who have heard Rose Mary Shel-
don's delightful lectures will attest. Allen Dulles drew on the Bible's
accounts of scouting parties to extract some lessons for the present in his
The Craft of Intelligence. It's diverting, amusing, even instructive to seek
origins, to play the "who did it first" game. (Most of us have probably
read, in some variation or other, the statement that "intelligence is the
second oldest of the professions, but, unlike the oldest, it has fewer
scruples... and it employs more amateurs"). But what of U.S. origins in
this area of intelligence and security?
A decade or so ago, reacting to the notion that secrecy was somehow
bad--un-American--and to be dispensed with, various publications,
both official and private, reminded the reading public that this nation
was the result of revolutionary conspiracy, in which secrecy was an
essential ingredient. Not only was secrecy not "un-American," there
would have been no America without it. Statements of our Presidents
were culled to show their appreciation of the need for intelligence and
for security. And it added a new facet to "the father of his country" to
learn that George Washington was, as Walter Fortzheimer has aptly
described him, our earliest and "best intelligence officer until Bill
Donovan". So our search for our American origins properly starts with
our Revolution. There the cryptologist can find the use of secret writing
(cryptography), the "breaking" and reading of secret writing (crypta-
nalysis), and its exploitation for intelligence purposes ("crypt intelli-
gence"). The names of the Rev. Mr. Samuel West (educated at
Harvard), Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, and Colonel Elisha Porter
of the Massachusetts militia might qualify for an erudite trivia quiz, yet
they arguably constituted our first team of "cryppies" (interesting
enough, operating on a competitive basis, West independent of Gerry
and Porter). But the man nominated by David Kahn in his seminal
work, The Codebreakers, as "The Father of American Cryptologists"
was James Lovell (1737-1814), a Harvard-educated Bostonian, whose
accomplishments as cryptographer and analyst merit his standing at the
head of the list.
The Revolution also offers us the origins of our military intelligence,
both tactical and strategic. Here we encounter Major Benjamin Tal-
Imadge of the Second Regiment, Connecticut Light Dragoons, Nathan
and Enoch Hale, his brother (even those who know of Mycroft Holmes
probably never heard of Enoch!), and Robert Townsend, all four class-
mates at Yale. (Some day, perhaps, someone will investigate the impli-
cations of Yale as our source for HUMINT and Harvard for SIGINT:
could "friendly rivalry" between two giant agencies today stem from
this distant origin? Donovan also came from Yale!)
The execution of Nathan Hale by his captors produced our first
"hero" of intelligence. Commemorated by Intelligence, his statue
(hands bound, chin thrust forward, his neck awaiting the noose) observ-
ing those entering and exiting CIA, Nathan Hale may seem a strange
role model. "He was an amateur who `blew it', got caught, and was
hanged," say some detractors. The noble ring of the last defiant words
attributed to him compensates, but hardly explains Hale as a symbol.
Rowan, in his The Story of Secret Service, offers a persuasive reason why
Hale justly deserves memory among the professionals:
"Warned by Hale's misfortune, Washington proceeded to
enlist persons in a military organization who would play the
deadly game gaily and with spirit and would know how to
keep their work really secret. And so well was the lesson of
Nathan Hale's sacrifice learned by them that one hundred
and fifty years had to elapse before anybody detected the
chain of his successors. "
How appropriate, then, that the
symbol of Nathan Hale has an even
more significant "covert" implication
than the `overt "one. Rowan's empha-
sis on the word "organization" stresses
one of two key considerations in seeking
out origins. (The other one is
"continuity"--we've tended as a nation to
contrive a response in an emergency, then forget everything we'd
learned when the emergency passes. And so it was, until 1947.) We
might apply the modern term, communications intelligence, or
COMINT, to the product of Lovell and his contemporaries, but it
stretches the case a bit to say that there was a COMINT organization
during the Revolution, other than in an ad hoc way. Dr. Kahn explains
why:
"...with the exception of an infrequent episode..., no cryp-
tograms were intercepted. It was not until the war neared its
end that enough messages were captured to make recurrent
cryptanalysis possible".
In other words, while cryptography can be practiced by individuals--
and even cryptanalysis, yielding "COMINT"--a COMINT enterprise
depends upon captured, intercepted, messages in such volume as to
prompt thought of an organization, let alone to justify it.
Jumping ahead to modern times, with the World War II revelations
of Colonel Winterbotham and the excellent historical studies by the late
Ronald Lewin, the conclusion would seem obvious: it was the advent of
wireless radio which justified COMINT organization. Knowing that
radio was used in the First World War, the curious reader would find
evidence of COMINT organization in that earlier war and perhaps be
content to stop at that point. If intelligence (including COMINT) is not
just an aspect of warfare, certainly it is harder to trace in peace time--or,
at least, that was the case until the present. (As Thomas Hardy
remarked, the reason he preferred war to peace is that peace made such
poor reading, but war made "rattling good history". Whether the
absence of information about intelligence activities in peace time means
there was no activity would have to be proved, whereas "rattling good"
wartime examples are handy.) So it would seem that we could satisfy
ourselves by concluding that, although there were isolated, ad hoc and
individual examples of today's profession at the time of the Revolution,
World War I must have marked the beginning organized COMINT and
the advent of "G2", and continuity between the wars, offering a bridge
to the present, would confirm that belief.
And we would be dead wrong.
It was not radio communication which first offered the volume to
justify COMINT organization.
It was not British and French experience which first prompted the
U.S. Army to organize for military intelligence.
Both events stem from our most "popular", most romanticized, and
most written about war, the one which took place within, between the
years 1861 and 1865. ? (to be continued)
Editors Note: Mr. David Gaddy, our guest historian, is Dean of the Department
of Cryptologic Management at the National Cryptologic School. He has been a
previous contributor to Colloquy and will be providing other historical insights in
the future.
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