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NSA/CSS 60th Anniversary Timeline - 1960s
Significant Events | Media | Photos | Documents
Significant Events
- 1960 - Martin & Mitchell
The defection of these NSA employees to the Soviet Union prompted tighter personnel security measures.
- 1961 - Specialist James Davis, USA, killed in combat in Vietnam
The first soldier killed was an advisor to a South Vietnamese Radio Research unit.
- 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
SIGINT played a critical role in defusing this event that had the world on edge.
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Media
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Photos
- Construction of Operations Building 1
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Completed Headquarters and Operations 1 Buildings
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Operations Building 1, also known as the William and Elizebeth Operations Building
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Courtyard in front of Operations Building 1, site for the new Headquarters Building
- Operations Building 1 and the Completed Headquarters Building
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Completed Operations Building 1 and Headquarters Building
- Construction of Headquarters Building
- Headquarters Building Illuminated for the Holidays
- A-1 Attack Plane, type launched by "Saratoga" to defend USS Liberty
- A-4 Skyhawk, type launched by "America" to defend USS Liberty
- Attack Carrier, U.S.S. America
- U.S.S. Liberty
- U.S.S. Liberty
- U.S.S. Liberty, Antenna Legend
- U.S.S. Liberty under attack, port side oil fire and burning machine gun mount
- U.S.S. Liberty
- Projected path of the U.S.S. Liberty, 8 June 1967
- Repairing the bridge of the U.S.S. Liberty
- U.S.S. Liberty
- U.S.S. Liberty
- Military helicopter removes body bags following the attack on the USS Liberty
- U.S.S. Liberty in Malta dry dock following attack
- Dry dock in Malta awaits arrival of the USS Liberty following attack
- The U.S.S. Davis
- U.S.S. Liberty
- U.S.S. Liberty
- U.S.S. Little Rock, Sixth Fleet Flagship, arrives to assist U.S.S. Liberty
- U.S.S. Papago
- Aerial view of the National Security Agency
- Aerial view of the National Security Agency
- View of the National Security Agency
- Entrance to Friendship Annex Building 1
- Construction of the William and Elizebeth Friedman Operations Building, also known as Operations Building 1
- National Security Agency complex at Fort Meade, Support Activities Building 2 in the background
- Headquarters Building
- Headquarters Building
- Headquarters Building
- William and Elizebeth Friedman Operations Building, also known as Operations Building 1
- Operations Buildings 1, also known as the William and Elizebeth Friedman Operations Building and Support Activities Building 1
- Support Activities Building 1, completed in 1957
- 9800 Area at Fort Meade, troop lodging facilities and staff areas for military units
- Intercept Bay at Phu Bai, Marine Radio Battalion
- Enlisted Men's Club at Ton Son Nhut
- Left bank operator during Vietnam
- Aerial view, Operation Compound, Monkey Mountain, near Da Nang
- Operator of COMSEC Section 372nd during Vietnam
- U.S.S. Jamestown
- The direct communication link between Washington and Moscow at the Pentagon Building
- Site 3, Teufelsberg, Berlin, Germany
- Site 3, Teufelsberg, Berlin, Germany
- NSA Directors Lieutenant General Marshall S. Carter and Vice Admiral Laurence H. Frost videotape discussion on NSA activity and the NSA Training School
- NSA Directors Lieutenant General Marshall S. Carter and VADM Laurence H. Frost
- NSA Directors Lieutenant General Marshall S. Carter and VADM Laurence H. Frost
- President Johnson meeting with National Security Council
- President Johnson's "Midnight Address" on 2nd Gulf of Tonkin Incident
- President Kennedy on phone in Oval Office
- President Kennedy on phone in Oval Office
- U.S.S. Maddox entering Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 15 August 1966
- Aerial view of Operations 1 Building with full parking lots
- Aerial view of NSA Fort Meade Campus showing Operations Building 1
- The Travis Trophy, first awarded in 1964 to the 6988th Security Squadron in Yokota, Japan
- UNIVAC system purchased by NSA in 1963
- The U.S.S. Liberty in Drydock, Malta 1967
- U.S.S. Oxford, a Navy COMINT collection vessel during the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Soviet strategic missile sites under construction in Cuba, 1962
- NSA office circa 1960s
- Naval Research Lab Team at Cape Canaveral for spin test of GRAB1 atop Transit 2A. (Left to right) Martin J. Votaw, George G. Kronmiller, Alfred R. Conover and Roy A. Harding
- (Left) William Martin and Bernon Mitchell (Center) tell Moscow press why they defected
- NSA Director LTG Marshall S. Carter, USA, observes class in progress during a 1967 visit
- The first U.S. Soldier killed in combat in Vietnam, Specialist James Davis, USA, an advisor to a South Vietnamese radio research unit
- VADM Laurence H. Frost, USN, NSA Director November 1960 - June 1962
- Dr. Louis W. Tordella, NSA Deputy Director August 1958 - April 1974
- Lt Gen Gordon A. Blake, USAF, NSA Director July 1962 - June 1965
- LTG Marshall S. Carter, USA, NSA Director June 1965 - August 1969
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Documents
Please Note: These historical documents are PDF images of formerly classified carbon paper and reports that have been declassified. Due to the age and poor quality of some of the PDF images, a screen reader may not be able to process the images into word documents. In accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, individuals may request that the government provide auxiliary aids or services to ensure effective communication of the substance of the documents. For such requests, please contact the Public Affairs Office at 301-688-6524.
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