“Signal Corps Intelligence Agency Activities” on Page 18 in the “Quadrennial Report of the Chief Signal Officer, US Army, May 1951-April 1955.”

Authors

Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Department of the Army
Robert Bolin , depositor, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

4-1955

Document Type

Article

Comments

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A complete copy of the 1955-1959 quadrennial report is available in the Hathi Trust Digital Library under:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001719776

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Abstract

This is a brief organizational history of a small special-purpose intelligence agency focused on signal equipment used by foreign armies and on the organization and activities of analogous organizations to the US Army Signal Corps in foreign armies. In addition, the Signal Corps Intelligence Agency had been tasked with producing intelligence concerning the Soviet-Bloc civilian power and communications networks.

In the 1950s, the Chief Signal Officer was the head of the US Army Signal Corps which was one of the US Army Technical Services. The Technical Services were bureaus which supplied the army with weapons and equipment, organized and trained special-purpose military units, provided the army with technical services, and managed the careers of officers commissioned in the corresponding branches. The Signal Corps provided communications and photographic services to the army.