Background

From April of 1956, to the Fall of 1980, the NSA published the “NSA Technical Journal” which contained articles and intelligence on all sorts of topics.

Below, you will find an archive of those articles and full NSA Technical Journals which have been released.

Document Archive

Misc. Military Intelligence Publications

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 On The Trail of Military Intelligence History [44 Pages, 7.45 MB]

NSA Technical Journal Full Article Index

 Full Index of NSA Technical Journal Articles [202 Pages, 5.87MB]

NSA Technical Journals (Full Release)

  Fall 1980, Volume 25, Number 4 [47 Pages, 3MB]

NSA Technical Journal Table of Contents

(NSA lists the contents of the journals as classified. Each article, or full journal, can be requested with a Mandatory Declassification Review Request to the NSA)

 NSA Technical Journal, April 1956, Volume 1, Number 1 [1 Page, 123kb]

 NSA Technical Journal, July 1956, Volume 1, Number 2 [1 Page, 117kb]

 NSA Technical Journal, October 1956, Volume 1, Number 3 [1 Page, 113kb]

 NSA Technical Journal, January 1957, Volume 2, Number 1 [1 Page, 108kb]

 NSA Technical Journal, April 1957, Volume 2, Number 2 [1 Page, 113kb]

 NSA Technical Journal Articles Individually Released

 Emergency Destruction of Documents – April 1956 – Vol. I, No. 1 [3 Pages, 294kb]

 Development of Automatic Telegraph Switching Systems – July 1957 – Vol. II, No. 3 [13 Pages, 454kb]

 Chatter Patterns: A Last Resort – October 1957 – Vol. II, No. 4 [7 Pages, 301]

 Introduction to Traffic Analysis – April 1958 – Vol. III, No. 2 [6 Pages, 346kb]

 Signals from Outer Space – April 1958 – Vol. III, No. 2 [4 Pages, 379kb]

 Science and Cryptology – July 1958 – Vol. III, No. 3 [4 Pages, 231kb]

 A New Concept in Computing – December 1958 – Vol. III, No. 4 [10 Pages, 375kb]

 About NSA – January 1959 – Vol. IV, No. 1 [5 Pages, 300kb]

 Data Transmission Over Telephone Circuits – January 1959 – Vol. IV, No. 1 [8 Pages, 395kb]

 Soviet Science and Technology: Present Levels and Future Prospects
January 1959 – Vol. IV, No. 1 [13 Pages, 686kb]

 Cryptanalysis in The German Air Force – April 1959 – Vol. IV, No. 2 [9 Pages, 788kb]

 A Program for Correcting Spelling Errors – October 1959 – Vol. IV, No. 4 [4 Pages, 331kb]

 The Borders of Cryptology – October 1959 – Vol. IV, No. 4 [4 Pages, 190kb]

 Did Aleksandr Popov Invent Radio? – January 1960 – Vol. V, No. 1 [4 Pages, 219kb]

 Book Review: Lost Languages – Fall 1960 – Vol. V. Nos. 3 & 4 [4 Pages, 296kb]

 The GEE System I – Fall 1961, Vol. VI, No. 4 [20 Pages, 1.49mb]

 Book Review: Lincos, Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1 – Winter 1962 – Vol. VII, No. 1 [5 Pages, 209kb]

 A Cryptologic Fairy Tale – Spring 1962 – Vol. VII, No. 2 [12 Pages, 328kb]

 Aristocrat – An Intelligence Test for Computers – Spring 1962 – Vol. VII, No. 2 [4 Pages, 169kb]

 Why Analog Computation? – Summer 1962 – Vol. VII, No. 3 [4 Pages, 314kb]

 Book Review: Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision – Winter 1963 – Vol. VIII, No. 1 [3 Pages, 234kb]

 Soviet Communications Journals as Sources of Intelligence – August 1964 – Vol. IX, No. 3 [4 Pages, 164kb]

 Something May Rub Off! – Winter 1965 – Vol. X, No. 1 [5 Pages, 303kb]

 Time Is – Time Was – Time Is Past Computes for Intelligence – Winter 1965 – Vol. X, No. 1 [13 Pages, 687kb]

 Communications with Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Winter 1966 – Vol. XI, No. 1 [9 Pages, 413kb]

 Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Spring 1966 – Vol. XI, No. 2 [2 Pages, 140kb]

 The Library and the User – Spring 1968 – Vol. XIII, No. 2 [5 Pages, 267kb]

 Mokusatsu: One Word, Two Lessons – Fall 1968 – Vol. XIII, No. 4 [6 Pages, 327kb]

 Key to The Extraterrestrial Messages – Winter 1969 – Vol. XIV, No. 1 [11 Pages, 383kb]

 Q.E.D. – 2 Hours, 41 Minutes – Fall 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 4 [22 Pages, 916kb]

 Earliest Applications of the Computer at NSA – Winter 1973 – Vol. XVIII, No. 1 [3 Pages, 186kb]

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