| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| TOPIC | PAGE |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR | i |
| IN MEMORIAM | iii |
| SPECIAL THANKS | iv |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | v |
| FOREWORD | xi |
| MAP - Europe, North Africa and West Asia | xiv |
| INTRODUCTION Signals Intelligence in the U.S. Air Force | 1 |
| U.S. Air Force - A Brief History | 2 |
| U.S. Air Force Security Service - An Overview | 3 |
| Book Layout | 5 |
| MAP - Germany during the Cold War | 546 |
| CHAPTER FOUR USAFSS - Germany-based Units | 547 |
| Berlin Blockade-First Cold War Crisis | 547 |
| 2nd RSM Activated in Germany | 550 |
| 2nd RSM Transferred to USAFSS | 551 |
| 2nd RSM Relocation | 553 |
| Detachment A, 2nd RSM, Rothwesten | 562 |
| Detachment B, 2nd RSM, Schleissheim | 563 |
| Adding More RSM's in 1949 | 564 |
| First Voice Intercept Ops in USAFSS | 569 |
| 2nd RSM-First Russian Linguists | 570 |
| Det C, 2nd RSM, Bremerhaven | 571 |
| NSG Joins USAFSS in Bremerhaven | 577 |
| Detachment D, 2nd RSM, Berlin | 577 |
| First Cold War Shoot Down Casualty | 607 |
| Dets Assigned Numeric Designators | 608 |
| Det 25, 2nd RSM, Landsberg | 609 |
| 12th RSM Activated and Shipped to Germany | 610 |
| 12th RSM Personnel Earmarked for 41st RSM | 618 |
| 12th RSM Personnel Earmarked for 34th RSM | 619 |
| 41st RSM Activated in 1951 | 623 |
| 41st RSM Becomes 6913th RSM | 628 |
| 41st/6913th Heritage | 647 |
| 6910th Security Group Activated | 648 |
| 6910th Security Group Ops | 651 |
| 6910th SG Relocates to Landsberg | 659 |
| 6900th SW Activated, Landsberg | 661 |
| USAFSS Detachment, Wasserkuppe | 663 |
| Flight F, 12th RSM-Vienna, Austria | 665 |
| USAFSS Ops at Sembach | 667 |
| Det 2, 12th RSM-Kaufbeuren | 667 |
| 85th RSM Arrives at Sembach | 668 |
| 6910th RGM-Sembach | 669 |
| 6900th SW Relocates to Frankfurt | 669 |
| Site Surveys-New European USAFSS Operating Locations | 673 |
| 69xx Unit Identifiers-May 1955 | 675 |
| 6910th Operations-Landsberg | 677 |
| New USAFSS Reporting Responsibilities | 681 |
| 6901st SCG Deploys to Landsberg | 681 |
| Det 1, 6912th RSM-Landsberg and Landshut | 685 |
| 6912th RSM-Bingen Closeout | 692 |
| 6912th RSM Activated in Berlin | 692 |
| USAFSS SIGINT Ops-Hof, Germany | 696 |
| 6915th Heritage | 708 |
| Det 1, 6901st SCG-Chicksands | 709 |
| 6901st SCG-Zweibrücken | 710 |
| 6901st Deactivation | 719 |
| 6911th RGM | 720 |
| 6910th RGM Replaces 6911th RGM | 724 |
| 6911th Security Squadron (M) | 728 |
| Comfy Levi-Contingency System | 730 |
| Comfy Levi Support to USAFE | 732 |
| "Berlin for Lunch Bunch" | 736 |
| Comfy Levi Leaves Europe | 739 |
| 6911th Flying Ops to Lindsey AS | 739 |
| Compass EARS/S&WC | 739 |
| 6911th Operations-Metro Tango | 740 |
| 6911th ESS Deactivated | 753 |
| 6911th Scty Sqdn (M) Heritage | 753 |
| AF Cryptologic Ops-Bad Aibling | 756 |
| European Scty Region Deactivated | 758 |
| 6900th Security Squadron | 759 |
| 6910th Scty Gp Relocates to Augsburg | 759 |
| 6910th SG/Augsburg Deactivated | 766 |
| USAFSS at ASA Border Sites | 767 |
| USAFSS-Rimbach-Eckstein, Germany | 768 |
| 6913th Transfer to Augsburg | 773 |
| Turning out Lights at Eckstein | 775 |
| Det 4, 6911th ESG-Augsburg | 778 |
| ESE/Ramstein Activated | 779 |
| 6913th ESS Deactivated | 781 |
| 6910th ESW-Lindsey AS, Germany | 781 |
| 6952nd ESS-RAF Alconbury | 782 |
| 6918th ESS-Sembach AB/Grünstadt | 783 |
| 6919th ESS Activated at Sembach AB | 786 |
| 41st ECS and 43rd ECS | 788 |
| 6919th ESS Deactivated | 790 |
| Germany-based AFIC Units | 790 |
| Germany-based AIA Units-1993 | 792 |
| 26th IG/Ramstein | 792 |
| 26th Intel Supt Squadron | 793 |
| 426th IS/OPSEC and Tech Exploitation | 795 |
| 488th IS-Operation Allied Force | 798 |
| 402nd IS Support to Kosovo Air War | 799 |
| 451st IS Support to Kosovo Air War | 800 |
| 485th IS Support to Kosovo Air War | 801 |
| Return to Darmstadt | 801 |
| CHAPTER FIVE USAFSS - Southern Europe and Middle East | 805 |
| 34th RSM Activated-April 1951 | 805 |
| Early USAFSS Ops in Turkey | 807 |
| 6930th Scty Gp Activated in 1953 | 811 |
| RGM's in Libya and Turkey | 813 |
| 6933rd RGM to Karamursel | 815 |
| 6933rd RGM Operations | 821 |
| Sile, Turkey-ELINT Intercept Site | 824 |
| Diyarbakir-ELINT/TELINT Site | 824 |
| 6933rd Security Wing Activated | 825 |
| USAFSS-Samsun and Trabzon | 826 |
| 6933rd SG Replaces 6933rd SW | 829 |
| USAFSS-Crete (1954-1993) | 833 |
| USAFSS-Pakistan | 835 |
| Closing Down 6937th Comm Group | 848 |
| 6917th RSM, San Vito, Italy | 851 |
| 6917th ESG Deactivated | 859 |
| Det 1, 6917th ESG | 860 |
| CHAPTER SIX USAFSS-United Kingdom | 863 |
| 10th RSM Activated | 863 |
| MAP - United Kingdom and Ireland | 864 |
| Settling in at Chicksands | 873 |
| 10th RSM-Early Operations | 899 |
| 10th RSM Direction Finding | 917 |
| USAFSS Expansion in UK | 921 |
| 6950th Security Group Activated | 923 |
| DF Station-RAF Edzell, Scotland | 923 |
| Det 2, 10th RSM Activated | 924 |
| 37th RSM-Activated | 924 |
| Relocating Edzell DF Site | 935 |
| 6952nd SS Deactivated | 938 |
| 6950th RGM Activated | 939 |
| 6950th SW Activated | 941 |
| Bldg 600-New Ops Building | 972 |
| Turning out LightS at Chicksands | 979 |
| Y2K Reunion at Chicksands | 985 |
| Chicksands Five Years Later | 999 |
| APPENDIX A-Acronyms & Abbreviations | 1001 |
| APPENDIX B-USAFSS Unit Locations | 1017 |
| APPENDIX C-2nd RSM Special Inspection, May 1944 | 1037 |
| APPENDIX D-Reorganization of 2nd RSM, Dec 1945 | 1038 |
| APPENDIX E-Orders, Transfer of 2nd RSM to USAF, Feb 1949 | 1039 |
| APPENDIX F-2nd RSM Movement Directive, Feb 1949 | 1040 |
| APPENDIX G-2nd RSM Officer Assignments, Aug 1949 | 1041 |
| APPENDIX H-Evolution Turkish-American Alliance & TUSLOG | 1043 |
| INDEX | 1045 |
| NOTES | 1059 |
