We saw some tantalizing stuff that went back to the very beginning of the institution that now is NSA yesterday. The memo purported to demonstrate that some people were setting things up to become very powerful in the Secret World.
They had almost three years to get ready for the time of peace. Here is one of the things they did to protect themselves from anyone getting any bright ideas about what they did and who they did it for. This memo is from the repository at Naval Station Crane, Indiana.
The memo is banal bureaucracy distilled. This was the implacable face of an institution that was determined to keep its new-found power and prestige.
Oh, and in a side note, the declassification authority works like this, and is explained by a woman in a position to know:
“When records come to the archives they get a multi-agency review. The project number for the review goes on each box. It is usually NND and a number. When a researcher copies records from a box with a
declassification number, it is necessary to put that project number on each copy, even if the particular document is unclassified. The notation is an indication the records have been reviewed by the archives and the archives can use the project number to verify it. Any publication of a document should have one.”
The marking intact: Read Here.