CENTER LANE PRODUCT RELATED TO THE NSA COMSEC ORGANIZATION'S MISSION (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 25, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 20041? ', , I 6-00788RO01700220004-7
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
FORT GEORGE- G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755
Serial: S1/041
25 May 1.984
SECRET
SUBJECT:
TO:
Organization's Mission
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commander:
U.S. Army
intelligence and Security Command
ATTN: Chief, SSP:D
Fort. George G. Meade, MD 20755
SG1A 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 cr tanal tic organi-
zations and activities
SG1A
e work closely
with many c i. erent ante science in ormation 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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oreign security organizations implement an SG1
enforce extreme security measures to protect these targets,
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2. The product provided to us from the SG1
CENTER LANE program as a result of our tasking has been
impressive,
The CENTER LANE product as
addressed most o 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.
3.
We believe that in the future
the CENTER LANE program will continue to be useful and
valuable to our threat assessment mission for acquir.'ing
information concerning these targets.
SG1
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SG1I
Director
COMSEC Doctrine
and Threat Assessment
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