Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1136 21 1136-21-p038

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Vy information produced by NSA includes political, economic, scientific and military data which is of immeasurable value to the President, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State and othe: policymakers. Obviously, if a COMINT source used by the Agency becomes unavailable, policymakers must operate without the information that source pro- duced. Sometimes it is impossible to establish a new and equivalent intercept and the source is lost permanently. Those losses are not only extremely...