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The paper explains that SIGINT was the designation for the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the World War II period. This is explained in the story of the VENONA program, that being a code name referring to a project to examine encrypted Soviet diplomatic communications. The paper relates that SIGINT is responsible for gathering messages and for overseeing decryption efforts on intercepted messages. The paper notes that for most of the period since World War II, these efforts have been targeted specifically at messages from and to the Soviet Union.

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"SIGINT was the designation for the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the World War II period. This is explained in the story of the VENONA program, that being a codename referring to a project to examine encrypted Soviet diplomatic communications. SIGINT is responsible for gathering messages and for overseeing decryption efforts on intercepted messages. For most of the period since World War II, these efforts have been targeted specifically at messages from and to the Soviet Union. The end of the Cold War and the start of the terrorist era has altered that focus somewhat. The VENONA case teaches first that it is best to presume a widespread..."

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