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view of the dangers of national extinction, becomes almost an imperative.
These two factors converge to produce more cryptology and more
cryptologists than ever before.
Even considering only the radio circuits, the possibilities for traffic
analysis and cryptanalysis are enormous. The United States protects
itself from these, and at the same time it exploits the opportunities
afforded by the comparable Communist networks. The hugeness of this
task has engendered the greatest cryptologic organization in history—the
National Security Agency and the three armed service cryptologic
agencies.
N.S.A. probably owes its existence, like the Central Intelligence
Agency and the Department of Defense itself, to Pearl Harbor. Congress,
after its investigation of the surprise attack, recommended "that there be
a complete integration of Army and Navy intelligence agencies," and the