Technicians work a on various instruments in a laboratory at SITFA ( System Interamericano de Telecommunicaciones de Furezas Aereas) station in Uruguay. They work on controls and check instruments as a part of maintenance process. A man take down notes.
SITFA ( System Interamericano de Telecommunicaciones de Furezas Aereas) station in Uruguay. SITFA,a high frequency,single sideband voice communication system. Towers atop a hill at the station. Antenna on top of towers.
Technicians work at SITFA ( System Interamericano de Telecommunicaciones de Furezas Aereas) station in Uruguay. SITFA,a high frequency,single sideband voice communication system. One of the technicians works on controls as the other one speaks into the microphone.
A film titled 'With enemies like you who needs friends' explains scope of enemy effort against United States Air force voice communications. An enactment shows a Soviet agent invited by United States Air Force to tryout for position of defector. The agent receives intelligence information over the phone. Exposes Soviet techniques for intercepting voice communications.
United States Air Force retired Major General Barry Goldwater explains the role of voice communication and the importance of ensuring its security followed by a film titled ' The third man is listening' The film shows the vulnerabilities of United States communication systems. An Air Force officer explains enemy capabilities for acquiring intelligence through interception of these communications.
After showing several Russian signal intelligence sites, a map, centered on the North Pole, depicts numerous forms of communications facilities and antennas. An animated map depicts what it calls the world-wide communist communications intelligence (COMINT) threat, comprised of fixed sites, trawlers, airborne, submarine, and satellite platforms. Then several types of facilities are shown. The film narrator, a U.S. Air Force Colonel in short-sleeved summer uniform shirt, is then seen as he mentions diplomatic posts around the world that also serve as intelligence gathering sites. Aerial views, from overflying helicopter, of Washington, DC, and environs, including the Capitol, Federal buildings, and the Pentagon. Map showing Soviet Military Attache Office, Soviet school, Soviet Embassy, and the Pentagon, together with the telephone trunk lines serving them. Another map displays microwave links in the Washington area. View of the residence of the Russian Ambassador, at 1125 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. The radio antenna on the roof of the building. Images of "Krug" signal gathering sites, and map of their locations in the Soviet Union., Map of USSR communications intelligence threat in Asiatic-Alaskan area. Innocent-appearing fishing trawlers used by Soviets to intercept communications. A Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 aircraft, equipped for signal intelligence collection, is seen in flight. Closeup of the aircraft tail. Views from an aircraft flying around the Tu-95. Animated illustration of earth rotating in space and of satellites passing over it. Map of Cuban COMINT threat. Polar-centered map showing Chinese and North Korean communications intercept installations. U.S. intelligence aerial photograph of a site in China, across from Taiwan. Map of COMINT threat sites in Southeast Asia.
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