16 February 2008

Warrenton Stations Eyeball: http://eyeball-series.org/cia-wtc3/cia-wtc3.htm

A sends:

Here is some more information on Warrenton, VA.

I was there from 11-67 thru 4-68 waiting to get out of the Army.  I was assigned to Vint Hill Farms Station.

This was an Army Security Agency (now INSCOM) post.  The assigned mission was to intercept Diplomatic Communications and intercept everything from Cuba.  Also, during the Peace Rallies in D.C. we monitored (intercepted) everything we could from their radios & communications methods.  Also, I was being interviewed by the CIA for a Telecommunications Officer position.  The guys who handled the Agency's world-wide telecommunications network and put extremely sensitive communications in off-line Cryptography (5 letter code groups.)  These then were super encrypted when sent & received over the on-line crypto machines.        

http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00017.pdf

Training would be at the Warrenton Training Center (Station B) for 6 months to learn the different Communications Formats for CIA cables/messages.  I would be assigned to the Directorate of Operations and would be able to retire at age 50 if I completed 15 years of overseas assignments.  The DO Communicators were a small percentage of the total Office of Communications personnel.

A friend of mine who I was stationed with in Okinawa spent 15 years with them and was assigned Domestic duties only.  He spent 10 years in California (where he was from) working in a small COMMCENTER at TRW where the majority of Traffic concerned Corona.  They were going to give me cover as an Army Captain for my 1st assignment at the CIA Station in Saigon.  I spent 36 months in the Far East, had served in Vietnam & hated the country.  I said I would go any place in the Far East except Vietnam.

They wouldn t budge & neither would I.

When I was either in Vietnam or Thailand I saw an Intelligence Cable from CAS (Controlled American Source their overseas cover name) where they had a small Commcenter near the North/South Vietnamese border that was over-run and had 10 Communicators killed.

Not for me.

Station B at that time was their main Telecommunications Commcenter for world-wide communications in addition to being a Training Facility.

Entrance to it was at the top of a mountain outside of Warrenton.  Two Civilian Guards carrying grease-guns would come out from the entrance fence if they didn t see one of their sticker s on you vehicle.

Brandy Site C has taken over the previous Relay function for Site B.

Go to the CIA s FOIA site and run a search under:  "yekadl". This is an example of the Communication's Format the IC Community uses.  Often referred to as Y communications as opposed to R (GENSER) communications normal Top Secret & Below.