Talk:Signal Intelligence Service

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Signal Intelligence Service[edit]

The correct title should read Signal Intelligence Service (not Signals). --OS (talk) 06:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done The first citation at NSA.gov and this book confirm it. I moved the French Wikipedia page as well and updated Wikidata. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 09:10, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Trimmed quote[edit]

Just trimmed out this long-standing unattributed quote:

After intense study of the Japanese language, I was stationed at Arlington Hall as part of the 2nd Sig Serv Bn. I was given training in cryptography at Vint Hills Farms before the stint at Arlington Hall. We were reading the 1944 Japanese Army General Codebook. There were always glitches, both from faulty reception and failure to break the monthly cyphers. It was our job to fill these in (guess at them) and get the translated messages to McArthur's HQ in the Pacific. We were aided by several two-story barracks filled with IBM computers (then called punch-card tabulators). In January, the new 1945 codebook was published by the Japanese and we were pretty much back to square one. Myself and another expendable Lt. were sent to the Pacific looking for captured code equipment. Our knowledge of what it looked like would supposedly qualify us to find such. No luck on Saipan. 1st Marines did find the code books in the catacombs under Shuri Castle. Back at AH we translated and decrypted, until one day I got a message with a new word: Genshi Bakudan...atom bomb. War ended. From there it was to Japan to interview civilians and military (USSBS). Then discharge and back to Texas.

Google tells me it's from Jack of All Trades by J.A. Payne - if someone can see how to fit it in that's fine, but I can't. -Snori (talk)

Worked Ann Z. Caracristi Directly in SIS ?[edit]

There are no direct information sources indicating that Ann Z. Caracristi Worked in SIS Alpha-Gamma (talk) 18:19, 4 April 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Not so. The book by Liza Mundy that I referenced describes her work there in considerable detail, based on interviews with her before she died and on other sources. Note that the intro to our article had the dates wrong, according to the NSA's history page. It was called the Signal Intelligence Service until 1943 and then the Signal Security Agency. It only became the Army Security Agency after the war, according to the NSA . Caracristi started right out of college in 1942, so there is no question she worked there when it still had the name Signal Intelligence Service. Note that even prior to my edits, most of the content of this article is post 1942. It would be nice to include some earlier history, but there is no reason not to include all activities through WW II as it was one continuous operation.--agr (talk) 23:42, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Well, a little discussion contributed to the improvement of this article. Although, you have to be careful with the extension gallery. This can become an uncontrolled process. The first four persons were listed in one information source. Alpha-Gamma (talk) 04:20, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Signal Security Agency" lasted only two (or three) years from 1943 to 1945. There is a question: whether it is necessary to create "Signal Security Agency" separate page, or to make redirection from requests "Signal Security Agency" on "SIS"? Alpha-Gamma (talk) 04:20, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]