NSA/CSS 60th Anniversary Timeline - 1960s

• Significant Events
• Documents
• Photos
• Media

Significant Events

• 1960 - Martin & Mitchell
  The defection of these NSA employees to the Soviet Union prompted tighter personnel security measures.
• 1961 - Specialist James Davis USA killed in combat in Vietnam.
  The first soldier killed was an advisor to a South Vietnamese Radio Research unit.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
  SIGINT played a critical role in defusing this event that had the world on edge.

Documents

• The Room 40 Compromise - 1 January 1960
• Eisenhower Library: Memorandum Regarding Missing NSA Personnel - 1 August 1960
• Eisenhower Library: Discussion at the 463rd NSC Meeting - 18 October 1960
• Recruiter's Manual - December 1960
• Eisenhower Library: Excerpts from the Joint Study Group Report on Foreign Intelligence Activities - 15 December 1960
• The Operations of the NSA - January 1961
• Development of Advanced Intelligence Collection Programs - 17 February 1961
• Initial Attitudes of College Recruits Hired 1960-61 - March 1962
• Plan for Continuity of Operations - 20 June 1962
• Photographing and Sketching NSA Facilities - 20 February 1963
• History of NSA General Purpose Electronic Digital Computers - 1964
• PL88-290 Personnel Security Procedures at NSA - 26 March 1964
• DoD Directive Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center - 27 April 1964
• Johnson Library: JCS Incoming Message Regarding Gulf of Tonkin - 2 August 1964
• Johnson Library: Memorandum for the President Regarding Attack on U.S.S Maddox - 2 August 1964
• Johnson Library: Press Release Regarding Gulf of Tonkin - 3 August 1964
• Johnson Library: Message Regarding Gulf of Tonkin - 4 August 1964
• Johnson Library: JCS Incoming Message Regarding Gulf of Tonkin - 7 August 1964
• Johnson Library: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - 10 August 1964
• U.S. Government Memorandum Regarding NSA - 19 July 1965
• Memorandum for the Director - 14 December 1965
• DoD Directive S-3115.2 - 7 February 1967
• Johnson Library: Cable from USDAO Tel Aviv Regarding the U.S.S. Liberty - 8 June 1967
• Johnson Library: Memorandum to the President Regarding the U.S.S. Liberty 9:50 AM - 8 June 1967
• Johnson Library: Memorandum to the President Regarding the U.S.S. Liberty 10:15 AM - 8 June 1967
• Johnson Library: Memorandum to the President Regarding the U.S.S. Liberty Status - 8 June 1967
• Special Study Group on the U.S. SIGINT Effort - 11 September 1967
• PFIAB Recommendations on NSA Authority and Responsibility - 27 September 1967
• Weather or Not -- Encrypted? - 30 November 1967
• Pueblo KORCOM 04 - 19 January 1968
• Johnson Library: Notes from the President's Tuesday National Security Lunch - 23 January 1968
• SIGINT Reflections - 23 January 1968
• SIGINT Reflections 23 January 1968
• SIGINT Reflections on U.S.S. Pueblo - 23 January 1968
• Additional SIGINT Reflections - 26 January 1968
• Johnson Library: Memorandum for the President Regarding the Gulf of Tonkin - 27 January 1968
• North Korean Navy Voice Reflections of U.S.S. Pueblo Seizure - 7 February 1968
• SIGINT Reflections of Unidentified Vessel off North Korean Coast - 8 February 1968
• Memorandum Regarding NSC Communications Security Device - 26 August 1968
• Cryptographic Damage Assessment - 28 February 1969
• Memorandum Regarding Centralization of Processing and Reporting - 13 May 1969
• JCS Draft Revisions to NSCID No. 6 - 25 June 1969
• JCS Memorandum Regarding NSA Authorities and Relationships - 3 September 1969

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