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NSA and the Korean War SIGINT Crisis

Strictly speaking, NSA did not yet exist when the Korean War began. But later NSA histories treated the war as one of the decisive crises in American cryptologic history because it revealed how badly the postwar system had been weakened, how mixed the SIGINT record could be, and why AFSA was not enough.

Declassified / Nsa/historical record/2026-03-30

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AFSA to NSA: How the Secret Agency Was Built

AFSA to NSA is the story of how the United States tried to centralize cryptology after World War II, discovered that partial unification was not enough, and then built a new national agency under Cold War pressure. This entry traces the structural failures of AFSA, the role of the Brownell Committee, and the birth of NSA as a stronger and more centralized intelligence institution.

Declassified / Nsa/agency origin history/2026-03-29

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