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 NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
 FORT GEORGE- G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755
 Serial:  S1/041
 25 May 1.984
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 commander:
 U.S. Army
 intelligence and Security Command
 ATTN:   Chief, SSP:D
 Fort. George G. Meade, MD   20755
 SG1A                1.                The NSA COMSEC Doctrine and Threat
 Assessment Organization uses intelligence information from a
 wide variety of sources.   This information is used  to assess
 the foreign threat to U.S. communications security.  To
 accurately assess this threat, we require information about
 certain foreign targets  (e.g. , foreign cr   tanal tic organi-
 zations and activities
 SG1A
 e work closely
 with many c i.  erent ante  science in ormation collection
 organizations,  including the CENTER LANE program,  so that
 our requirements are reasonable for collection and so that
 scarce and sometimes extremely delicate U.S.   collection
 resources are efficiently utilized against difficult: targets.
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 oreign security organizations implement an     SG1
 enforce extreme security measures to protect these targets,
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 2.                The product provided to us from the   SG1
 CENTER LANE program as a result of our tasking has been
 impressive,
 The CENTER LANE product  as
 addressed most o  our requirements, and the value of the
 information, to our threat assessment mission ranges from nil
 to very valuable.  The bulk of this information we are
 unable to corroborate from other intelligence sources;
 NSA review(s) completed.
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 however, we have been able to determine that some of the
 information is amazingly accurate, whereas some of the
 information is erroneous.  At the present time, the greatest
 value of the CENTER LANE product is in developing requirements
 for other collection resources and to suggest alternative ways
 of interpreting information from other sources.
 3.
 We believe that in the future
 the CENTER LANE program will continue to be useful and
 valuable to our threat assessment mission for acquir.'ing
 information concerning these targets.
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 Director
 COMSEC Doctrine
 and Threat Assessment
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