The Establishment of the National Security Agency, October 24, 1952.

President Truman and National Security Council in October 1952 adopted most of the “Brownell Committee’s” recommendations and issued a revised version of NSCIB No. 9 on 24 October 1952.

A mingling of military and non-military interest was expressed in the word “nation.” The production of COMINT was declared to be a national responsibility. In place of an Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA) the U.S. Government was to have a National Security Agency, an organization with the same resources plus a new charter. The AFSA Council, while not specifically abolished, thus had the agency pulled out from under it. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were no longer in the chain-of-command; the Director, NSA (DIRSNA), reported to the Secretary of Defense through a unit in the latter’s office which dealt with sensitive operations. The Secretary himself was declared to be Executive Agent of the Government for COMINT, and subordinate to a Special Committee for the NCS, which he and the Secretary of State were the two members, and the Director of Central Intelligence was an advisor.