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the Air Force. The Army, at I, least, charged its agency with maintaining
"liaison with ''{ the Department of the Navy, Department of the Air I
Force, and other appropriate agencies, for the purpose of t| coordinating
communication security and communication S intelligence equipment
and procedures." Presumably the * Navy and the Air Force units were
similarly charged. This |: arrangement, which relied on internal desire
instead of jj external direction, prolonged the abuses hinted at by Wil-I
loughby. To rectify them and achieve the benefits of I centralized control,
the Defense Department in 1949 established the Armed Forces Security
Agency. The I A.F.S.A. took over the strategic communications-intelli-1
gence functions and the coordination responsibilities of the individual
agencies. It left them with tactical communica-£ tions intelligence, which
can best be performed near the point of combat and not at a central
location (except for basic system solutions), and with low-echelon
annaabi.ee 
