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Fighting for Air: Cold War Reorganization and the U.S. Air Force Security Service, 1945-1952

Shackelford, Philip Clayton
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7685-3937
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461432022

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2016, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of History.
This thesis explores the early history of the U.S. Air Force Security Service (USAFSS), an early Cold War military communications intelligence (COMINT) agency established by the Air Force on October 20, 1948. Using bureaucracy theory, the study seeks to understand why the U.S. Air Force was motivated to create a separate COMINT capability at this point in time, how the capability would be organized, and what functions the organization was expected to provide. Drawing upon a number of declassified Air Force and Executive Branch documents, congressional testimony, official historical studies and oral history materials, this study argues that the Air Force developed the USAFSS to resist dependence upon other military intelligence efforts and that the organization successfully accomplished Air Force objectives for a separate, communications intelligence capability.
Ann Heiss, Dr. (Advisor)
105 p.
American History; Armed Forces; History; Information Technology; International Relations; Military History; Military Studies; Modern History; Technical Communication; Technology
Air Force; Cold War; intelligence; national security; military; post-World War II; communications intelligence; COMINT; USAFSS; NSA; National Security Agency; defense; United States; intelligence community; technology; reorganization; USAF; history;

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  • Shackelford, P. C. (2016). Fighting for Air: Cold War Reorganization and the U.S. Air Force Security Service, 1945-1952 [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461432022

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shackelford, Philip. Fighting for Air: Cold War Reorganization and the U.S. Air Force Security Service, 1945-1952. 2016. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461432022.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shackelford, Philip. "Fighting for Air: Cold War Reorganization and the U.S. Air Force Security Service, 1945-1952." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461432022

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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