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.Soviet messages transmitted by a special device that varies itstransmission frequency often and unexpectedly and that has the ability tosend a long message in the briefest "squirt" of time will be monitored and recorded accurately.Massive all-wave and all-frequency band receiverswith high-speed scanning capability have the means to capture the "squirtmessages" and then to draw them out until they are intelligible enough tobe turned over to the computers for decoding.Even infrared signals, sound signals, and earth vibrations, such asare caused by railroad trains and mining operations, are recorded andtranslated into intelligence.The hum of high energy transmission linescarrying various loads gives indications of peak periods of line usage.There are no secrets.As Norbert Wiener said years ago, ".society can only beunderstood through a study of the messages and the communicationfacilities which belong to it"; and ".development of these messagesand communication facilities, messages between man and machines,between machines and man, and between machine and machine, aredestined to play an ever-increasing part." And he adds, ".the theory ofcontrol in engineering, whether human or animal or mechanical, is achapter in the theory of messages."[1]In these modern times it may be added that the theory of control ofgovernments is also another chapter in the theory of messages.Thatorganization that controls the communication system will have in itspower the ability to control the government.One of the greatest attributesof the communications system is its use in the development of feedback,the ability to generate future action -- usually response -- by the sensing ofinputs from past performance.The total communications system makes itpossible for the intelligence organization to collect and then to grade agreat volume of information and to cull from this, those bits that will bemade into the daily briefing and the essence of the current intelligenceportfolio.More than anything else, it is this tremendous communicationssystem that makes the Agency operational system what it is.From all overthe world, messages of all kinds pour in from agents buried in all sorts ofplaces and making all sorts of contacts.From all over the world, small bitsof information gleaned from all kinds of instrumental communicationsequipment and advanced sensors feed information back into the centers ofcollection.Behind all of this, there are action officers who evaluate andprocess the bits that are culled and selected from the gross input from allsources.Whenever one of these action officers discovers something special,he will do his best to see that it is brought to the attention of his superiors.The system is so constructed that such data moves rapidly from the lower,gaining echelon, to the middle management areas where it is againweighed and evaluated.If the information survives this first sortingprocess, the action officer will be directed to go back to his source,whether it is mechanical or human, to seek further information to enhancethe first bits.The occupational characteristic in this whole operation is thatthe action begins with the receipt of information.What happens afterwards is generally re-action.The message input becomes a control mechanismitself.The area of interest may build rapidly and require response in hours,or it may cover a period of months or even years.With each round oftraffic the overall pattern begins to shape itself, and gradually the littleprojects become big ones.Then more and more people are put on the job,and responsibility for project development is moved higher and higher upthe chain of command, until finally it will be considered for some sort ofmajor action directly under the control of the DD/P and his senior staff.The fact that information is sought and pursued effectively must notbe overlooked or ruled out.When certain events take place, experienceteaches that others may follow, and the intelligence machinery will be setin motion to look for such things.This is particularly true in long-rangeprojects.In modern manufacturing, it is impossible to assemble things liketelevision sets or motorcycles without a system of marking and coding theparts so that they may be assembled properly in any plant having thatknow-how; and so that spare parts may be ordered that will fit the originalset properly.Modern manufacturing requires that parts and majorassemblies be marked for cost control and inventory purposes.In manyinstances the marking and coding systems used are very sophisticated.Thus, if a Japanese solid-state transistor radio is put together using "TenNines" germanium (the element of germanium pure to.9 to the tenthpower), the tiny transistors will be marked with a code that proves they arethe genuine product and that they are of that quality.This not only signifies that the transistors are a quality item; but italso indicates that the Japanese manufacturer has reached that level in thestate-of-the-art that permits him to make and use such superior materialsand techniques.The same is true for alloys, tolerances, and other thingsthat are essential to quality work.Thus, if an agent buys several televisionsets in a foreign country and takes them apart to study them, he will findall of the subassemblies, down to tiny bits, coded and marked.If in theprocess he should find some novel, rare, or extremely precise technique,he will look further into the production methods of that factory and of thatcountry to see what this means.In a country like the Soviet Union with a highly developed nuclearprogram and a superior missile and space manufacturing capability, it is tobe expected that every so often new telltale discoveries will be made byfinding some little item in an exported product that signifies atechnological achievement, and perhaps even a new breakthrough.It isalmost impossible for any sophisticated manufacturing system to concealsuch developments once they have gone into mass production.Furthermore, serial numbers that usually accompany the marking programwill show development serially, and one item acquired in an Asiancountry may carry one series of numbers that link with others found in aLatin American country.Reconstruction of the series which the codes,markings, and numbers reveal will give a quite accurate indication of rateof production, among other things.From such leads, the system then puts its agents to finding out whether these new metals, techniques, or ideas have developed from thespace program, from weapons systems work, or what.Thecommunications system feeds all of this back, and agents all over theworld are coordinated in their development of this information speedilyand accurately, as if they were assembling some massive jigsaw puzzle
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