FCC Radio Intelligence Division (1940-1946) document

[Robert Stratton]

On 2006-02-08 19:15, "hal" <hfeinstein at cox.net> wrote:

> Sifting around google I stumbled across this document by George
> Sterling  W1AE/ ex-W3DF (sk)
> former WW II head of the RID.  It appears to have been held in a
> government archive
> and is now on the web.  Very possibly its the  most detailed description
> of RID available. I am
> aware that Sterling wrote a personal history of those times entitled
> "QSA0,"
> held privately by his family but never published.  QSA0 was the Q-signal
> sent by
> the HQ espionage station in Hamburg while it waited  for its agents
> to report in.   -h.
> 
> 
> http://www.cia.gov/csi/kent_csi/docs/v04i2a05p_0001.htm

I hadn't seen that. Thanks Hal! My grandfather was exceptionally proficient
at copying JA CW due to his service in the RIB.

--Bob S.