ELINT

Unless security standards were relaxed dramatically between then and 1964, I cannot imagine any circumstance in which a clerk typist (other than, perhaps, a classified documents control clerk) would have been allowed entrance into the ELINT operations area.

Chen Ping aka Ralph J Effner 2010

COMINT: communications intelligence (e.g., intercept of Morse, voice, teletype, phone communications), and ELINT: electronic intelligence (i.e., the intercept of non-communication electronic emissions such as radar emissions).

Chen Ping aka Ralph J Effner 2010

Based on my experience, Effner's claims to have served as an ELINT specialist and an intelligence collector working for the NSA appear to be exaggerations.

Chen Ping aka Ralph J Effner 2010

If Effner had attended a service school for any ELINT MOS, that fact would be recorded in his official military personnel file.

Chen Ping aka Ralph J Effner 2010

However, the fact that a person attended an ELINT service school or held an ELINT

Chen Ping aka Ralph J Effner 2010

Operate Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) receiving, direction finding, recording and related computer equipment, sophisticated state-of-the-art radar electronic equipment, magnetic or digital recording devices, analysis terminals and associated peripheral equipment.

Heroes or Villains? 2010

As one can imagine, the special knowledge and skills associated with the ELINT discipline are not the sorts of things one picks up on the job.

Chen Ping aka Ralph J Effner 2010

Details about how, and more importantly, how effectively our intelligence services perform ELINT missions is the classified aspect of the duties of an ELINT specialist.

Chen Ping aka Ralph J Effner 2010

Everybody headed home wondering if the guys in the ELINT birds had gotten anything.

A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

High overhead our electronic intelligence ELINT aircraft would orbit, waiting for the enemy to take the bait.

A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010