Re: 1st RSM in Korea

["Matthew M. Aid" <mmaid@starpower.net>]

Ron:

Send me your address offline and I will be happy to mail the articles to
you. They are not the easiest reading, so have a bottle of No-Doze handy.

I must confess that I have never heard any stories about ASA personnel being
used in the Ranger/Pathfinder role. As you no doubt recall from your days in
the service, their security clearances were far too high to use them in this
way, even if they were brilliant linguists. If they got captured, the damage
to the U.S. intelligence effort would have been enormous. Plus I am also
certain by the latter stages of the Korean War, we had much better parachute
qualified SOF personnel who could have performed the mission.

Matthew

----- Original Message -----
From: <RonaldS842@aol.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: 1st RSM in Korea


>
> In a message dated 11/8/01 1:43:15 AM, mmaid@starpower.net writes:
>
> << I wrote about the replacement of Det 1, 1st RSM by the 15th RSM (I
think it
>
> was in late 1951) in my article on COMINT in the Korean War published last
>
> year in the journal "Intelligence and National Security." If you don't
have
>
> it, I will dig up my files and see what I can come up with.
>
>
> Matthew Aid
>
>  >>
>
> Hi Matthew-
>
>    I would really appreciate the article. I was with 1st RSM 1952-1954.
>    I am not familiar with "intelligence and National Security" journal but
am
> a long time subscriber to "Cryptologia" a quarterly journal published by
the
> Department of Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy.
>    Among other things I am trying to verify a story that a couple of 1st
RSM
> operatives parashooted into a reservoir under cover of night and helped
> rescue a bunch of Marines. I don't know the time frame. I think the story
is
> true but I have never seen it confirmed. If so it would be an interesting
> story, one of the many that has never been told :-). One of the guys I
knew
> and he was named Asa and was a southerner.
>    Thanks.
>
> Ron
>