| TOPIC | PAGE |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR | i |
| IN MEMORIAM | iii |
| SPECIAL THANKS | iv |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | v |
| FOREWORD | xiii |
| MAPS | xvi |
| PROLOGUE Shoot Down of C-130 60628 - Rest of The Story | xxix |
| INTRODUCTION FTV - History of SIGINT in the USAF | 1 |
| US Air Force - A Brief History | 2 |
| USAFSS - An Overview | 3 |
| Book Layout | 4 |
| CHAPTER NINE Airborne SIGINT Recon - WW II | 1659 |
| Evolution of Airborne Recon | 1659 |
| First US Ferret Mission | 1661 |
| British Y Service vs. US SIGINT | 1661 |
| US and UK Partnership in Ultra | 1663 |
| Y Station Chatham | 1664 |
| Cheadle - Tactical SIGINT Centre | 1665 |
| Battle of Britain | 1668 |
| Signal Intelligence Division/ETO | 1672 |
| World's First Airborne EW Recon | 1675 |
| Evacuating Chatham Y to Chicksands | 1684 |
| Y Station Beaumanor | 1685 |
| Tactical Y Units and Earliest Y Mobile Vans | 1686 |
| RAF Y Service in North Africa | 1687 |
| Y Service Support to Operation Torch | 1688 |
| US SIGINT - North African Campaign | 1689 |
| 849th Signal Intelligence Service | 1689 |
| Jack Scollick and Operation Torch | 1692 |
| Ron Mawer and Operation Torch | 1694 |
| Det D, 849th SIS-First Air Corps COMINT Unit in Europe | 1695 |
| Evolution of the Radio Squadron Mobile | 1700 |
| Radio Squadrons Mobile | 1703 |
| 3rd Radio Squadron Mobile | 1704 |
| Airborne RCM | 1708 |
| Airborne Voice Intercept - WW II | 1710 |
| Historic B-17 "Shuttle Run" to Poltava, USSR | 1716 |
| Complexities of SIGINT in the Pacific | 1727 |
| 1st RSM Operations - World War II | 1728 |
| Airborne Intercept Ops - 1st RSM | 1730 |
| 8th Radio Squadron Mobile | 1732 |
| Airborne Intercept Ops - 8th RSM | 1737 |
| 5th RSM Operations - World War II | 1742 |
| 6th RSM Operations - World War II | 1743 |
| Airborne Intercept Ops - 6th RSM | 1746 |
| 7th Radio Squadron Mobile | 1747 |
| Transfer to Okinawa Overcome by Events | 1757 |
| 7th RSM Airborne Intercept Experiments | 1762 |
| Disjointed Airborne Recon in WW II | 1763 |
| WW II Airborne Recon Summary | 1764 |
| Map of Soviet Union (USSR) | 1766 |
| CHAPTER TEN Early USAFSS Airborne Recon | 1767 |
| Iron Curtain | 1767 |
| Bamboo Curtain | 1768 |
| Early US Cold War Recon | 1768 |
| Postwar ELINT Recon Start-up | 1768 |
| Postwar Recon in Far East | 1769 |
| Prototype ACRP 290 | 1770 |
| Project Blue Sky | 1784 |
| CHAPTER ELEVEN 6916th Security Squadron History | 1801 |
| The Front-Enders | 1802 |
| 7499th Support Group | 1804 |
| 7406th Support Squadron | 1805 |
| First ACRP Mission in Europe | 1812 |
| RB-50 to C-130A-II Transition | 1813 |
| The Back-Enders | 1826 |
| Det 1, 6911th Radio Squadron Mobile | 1828 |
| Det 1, 6911th RGM | 1835 |
| New Tasking - Soviet Naval Comms | 1852 |
| TUSLOG | 1853 |
| New Operating Location in Turkey | 1854 |
| TUSLOG Detachment 76 Activated | 1861 |
| TUSLOG Det 76 - Last Days | 1865 |
| RB-57 Lost Over Black Sea | 1865 |
| Morse Operator Needed or Not? | 1867 |
| The Shoot Down | 1872 |
| Resuming Flights From Incirlik | 1875 |
| Normal Ops Again From Incirlik | 1878 |
| Det 1, 6900th SW Activated | 1880 |
| 6916th RSM Activated | 1880 |
| Tall Tom | 1883 |
| 6916th Security Squadron Activated | 1885 |
| Pistachio Run - TDY's to Tehran | 1885 |
| The Electrical Emergency | 1891 |
| Emergency Landing at Samsun | 1894 |
| Bureaucracy, Snafus and Security Issues | 1903 |
| Early ACRP Missions Against Iraq | 1907 |
| Staging From Athenai Airport, Greece | 1910 |
| ACRP OperationS in Middle East - 1965 | 1914 |
| 6916th Ops - US Embassy, Athens | 1915 |
| ESR OL AB - Athenai Airport, Greece | 1919 |
| USAFSS Evacuated From Athenai Airport | 1923 |
| OL 2, 6916th SS, Athenai Airport | 1924 |
| Det 1, 6916th SS, Athenai Airport | 1925 |
| Mission Areas - Late 1960's | 1939 |
| The Chivas Regal Run | 1940 |
| Sunny Mallorca | 1941 |
| Czech Invasion | 1942 |
| The Inquisition | 1950 |
| Overtasked - Shuffling Resources | 1954 |
| 6916th SS/Rhein-Main - End of an Era | 1956 |
| 6916th SS - Hellenikon AB, Greece | 1964 |
| The Yom Kippur War - Oct 1973 | 1973 |
| SAC and the RC-135 Come to Athens | 1977 |
| The Cyprus Invasion | 1980 |
| MOB/FOB Operations | 1989 |
| 6916th SS New Ops Facility in 1982 | 1990 |
| Dodging Bullets in Central Med | 1994 |
| More Run-Ins With Gaddafi in the 1980's | 2001 |
| Operation El Dorado Canyon | 2004 |
| Changing Times | 2005 |
| Allied Camel Expedition | 2006 |
| A.C.E. II-Eagle Look-Bright Star '83 | 2015 |
| Responding to Chad's 911 Call | 2019 |
| 6916th Security Squadron - The Finale | 2031 |
| Operation Desert Shield | 2038 |
| Operation Desert Storm | 2039 |
| 6916th Security Squadron - Postscript | 2040 |
| Libyan Civil War | 2042 |
| CHAPTER TWELVE 6988th Security Squadron History | 2045 |
| Early Far East Airborne COMINT Ops | 2046 |
| RB-50 Shot Down, 29 July 1953 | 2047 |
| John Corryn, 6920th Airborne Pioneer | 2048 |
| RB-29A 62290 Returns to Yokota | 2050 |
| 91st SRS RB-45C Missions | 2058 |
| Det 1, 6924th RSM Activated | 2059 |
| RB-50 Missing Over SOJ, 10 Sept 1956 | 2060 |
| RB-50E and RB-50G Configurations | 2065 |
| Det 1, 6903rd Comm Sqdn Activated | 2068 |
| Aftermath of Loss of RB-50 47133 | 2068 |
| Det 1, 6920th Scty Wing Activated | 2068 |
| OL 1, 6988th Security Flight Activated | 2070 |
| Mission Profiles - Late 1950's | 2071 |
| Det 1, 6988th RSM Activated | 2074 |
| Split ACRP Operations | 2086 |
| Multichannel Processing and Analysis - MCPA | 2089 |
| 6988th RSM Deactivated/Activated | 2094 |
| Naha Incident | 2094 |
| 6988th Security Squadron Activated | 2098 |
| 6988th SS - Staging From Bangkok | 2098 |
| Formalizing Airborne OpS Procedures | 2100 |
| Silent Warrior 10,000 Hour Club | 2105 |
| USAFSS Airborne Supt-Vietnam War | 2105 |
| Pre-US Entry in Vietnam War and Vietnam War Prelude | 2107 |
| USS Ranger Incident - 9 April 1965 | 2109 |
| Juggling Aerial Recon Platforms | 2116 |
| ACRP Mission Processing at Da Nang | 2119 |
| First Vietnamese Abn Ops | 2125 |
| Monkey Mountain Circa Late 1968 | 2134 |
| College Eye/Rivet Gym | 2135 |
| 6988th SS Ends Ops in SEA and 6988th SS - Final Years | 2138 |
| USS Pueblo Seizure - OL 1, 6988th Activated | 2139 |
| Navy Beggar Shadow EC-121 Shot Down | 2140 |
| 6988th Rivet Gym Supt at Itazuke AB, Japan | 2144 |
| 6988th Rivet Gym Supt at Kwangju AB, Korea | 2146 |
| Early 6988th Missions Against Korea | 2148 |
| CHAPTER THIRTEEN 6985th Security Squadron History | 2151 |
| USAFSS Support on RB-47 Missions | 2153 |
| Project Bonus Baby | 2154 |
| Project Box Top | 2157 |
| Project Office Boy | 2161 |
| 6985th RSM Start-up | 2164 |
| Officer AMS Program | 2167 |
| Coordinated Missions Aboard KC-135's | 2173 |
| Tense Cold War Era-1960-62 | 2174 |
| First C-135 Recon Platforms | 2177 |
| Trio of KC-135A Recon Aircraft | 2178 |
| KC-135 COMINT Missions at Eielson | 2182 |
| 6985th Operational at Last | 2183 |
| The SAC Culture | 2184 |
| 6985th Partnered With SAC at Eielson | 2185 |
| Soviet ICBM Program - 1957 | 2191 |
| ICBM's - A Little Background | 2192 |
| Shemya Air Station - Background | 2194 |
| Klyuchi Range Impact Area | 2195 |
| Nancy Rae/Wanda Belle/Rivet Ball | 2198 |
| Covert Programs | 2203 |
| Lisa Ann Raven Pioneers | 2211 |
| Lisa Ann Flight Tests | 2215 |
| 55th SRW Moves From Forbes to Offutt | 2218 |
| Success and Kudos at Last | 2228 |
| Why Did Rivet Amber Disappear? | 2235 |
| Cobra Ball I & II - RC-135S's 61-2663 & 61-2664 | 2236 |
| Cobra Ball III - RC-135S 61-2662 | 2243 |
| KAL 007 Tragedy, 1 September 1983 | 2243 |
| Cold War Ends | 2246 |
| Cobra Eye RC-135X 62-4128 | 2247 |
| Cobra Ball Operations End at Shemya | 2248 |
| Det 1, 6985th Security Squadron | 2248 |
| RC-135D's Replaced by RC-135V's | 2249 |
| 6985th ESS - Turning Out the Lights | 2250 |
| Cobra Ball Operations After Shemya | 2251 |
| CHAPTER FOURTEEN History of USAFSS "Navy" | 2253 |
| USNS Arnold and USNS Vandenberg | 2254 |
| DEFSMAC | 2255 |
| USAFSS Airmen Get Their "Sea Legs" | 2255 |
| Bill Deister's TDY Assignment | 2256 |
| Guide to The USNS ARNOLD | 2261 |
| Thomas Beard's South Pacific Cruise | 2262 |
| Mike Beuster - TDY on Pony Express | 2263 |
| USAFSS Pony Express Support - 1976 | 2266 |
| USNS Arnold - The Last Cruise | 2270 |
| Arnold Replaced by Observation Island | 2271 |
| USNS Observation Island | 2272 |
| USNS Invincible | 2274 |
| Ballistic Missile Monitoring - Summary | 2275 |
| APPENDIX A-Acronyms & Abbreviations | 2279 |
| APPENDIX B-USAFSS Unit Locations | 2299 |
| APPENDIX C-Report on Rivet Amber Loss | 2319 |
| INDEX | 2329 |
| NOTES | 2351 |
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