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The original documents are located in Box 2, folder "Canada (2)" of the National Security
Advisor. Presidential Country Files for Europe and Canada, 1974-77 at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
Copyright Notice
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STRET
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PERMANENT JOINT BOARD OF DEFENSE
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Canada-United States
UNITED STATES SECTION
1A
THE PENTAGON
WASHINGTON D. C. 20301
5 November 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
SUBJECT: 137th Meeting of the Permanent Joint
Board on Defense, Canada-United States
1. Attached herewith for your information is a
copy of the Journal of Discussions and Decisions of
the 137th meeting of the Permanent Joint Board on
Defense, Canada-United States, held at Eglin AFB,
Florida, 22 - 25 October 1974.
2. The Permanent Joint Board on Defense will
hold its 138th meeting in March 1975. If you have
any suggestions as to agenda items, the United States
Section would be happy to receive them.
Fundy Bay
ANDY L. BORG
Chairman
Attachment
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TYPE OF MATERIAL
Journal
TITLE
Permanent Joint Board on Defense:
Canada-United States
DESCRIPTION
Journal of Discussions and Decisions
for the 137th Meeting Held at Eglin
AFB, Florida, 22-25 October 1974
CREATION DATE
11/1974?
VOLUME
24 pages
COLLECTION/SERIES/FOLDER ID
032500031
COLLECTION TITLE
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER. PRESIDENTIAL
COUNTRY FILES FOR EUROPE AND CANADA
BOX NUMBER
2
FOLDER TITLE
Canada (2)
DATE WITHDRAWN
10/16/2001
WITHDRAWING ARCHIVIST
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Appendix 1
Page 1
BRIEFING ON
CROSS BORDER COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
Briefers: Colonel R. A. Goldfogle
OJCS/J-6
Major P. R. Weisbrod
NDHQ/DGCEO
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CROSS BORDER COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
Colonel Goldfogle: Good morning Senator Aird, Ambassador Borg,
Gentlemen. As you already know, I am Colonel Dick Goldfogle, Chief
of the Operations Division, Communications-Electronics Directorate,
Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington; and on your
right is Major Paul Weisbrod of the Office of the Director General,
Communications-Electronics Operations, Deputy Chief of the Defence
Staff, NDHQ, Ottawa. We are very pleased to have been asked by you
to present a short briefing on the defense oriented communications
interconnecting our two countries.
Major Weisbrod: We are going to briefly show you today the cross
border circuits in common groupings. By that I mean first of all,
the means of communicating by voice, both secure on AUTOSEVOCOM and
non-secure, such as AUTOVON or Canadian Switched Network; then the
means of communicating by record copy - message or data - primarily
via AUTODIN and the Defense Data Network which is the Canadian
equivalent. We will identify both common user and dedicated voice
and record systems, and lastly, we will identify the transmission media
also shown here which are used to get the communications from point
to point.
Colonel Goldfogle: As of the beginning of this month, I have
been able to identify 523 circuits from the US terminating in Canada
and an additional 181 circuits which traverse Canada to reach other
points, such as Alaska, Greenland, and Europe.
Colonel Goldfogle: Turning first to the Automatic Secure Voice
Network, AUTOSEVOCOM, two cross-border circuits exist today; one
wideband circuit between Washington and Ottawa and a narrowband circuit
between NORAD and Ottawa. A third wideband circuit between Washington
and Ottawa should be operational by early next month. You can see
from this vugraph that two circuits, wideband in this case, exist
between Washington and NORAD. In addition, there are narrowband secure
terminals located at North Bay and Goose Bay receiving their connection
through the AUTOVON system and the Canadian Switched Network switch as
shown.
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Major Weisbrod: As Colonel Goldfogle described, there is a
narrowband secure voice facility connecting Cheyenne Mountain to 22
NORAD Region Hq, North Bay. AUTOSEVOCOM also reaches the US 95
Strategic Wing at Goose Bay via the Fredericton CSN AUTOVON switch.
The CINCNORAD-Ottawa circuit terminates in the National Defence
Operations Center, Ottawa, and must be accessed there.
Major Weisbrod: The existing Washington-Ottawa wideband circuit
terminates on a manual switchboard in the National Defence Operations
Center (NDOC), NDHQ Ottawa. It can also be accessed in the emergency
government hq at Carp close to Ottawa. The Prime Minister and the
Minister of External Affairs each have secure access to this system
from locations in the Parliament Building. The Minister of National
Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff each have access instruments
in the NDOC. The second wideband circuit will also terminate on the
NDOC switchboard.
Colonel Goldfogle: In Washington, secure voice service is avail-
able throughout the Pentagon, at the State Department, White House,
and within other key government agencies having a need for real time
passing of classified information by voice. The majority of these
secure voice calls traverse the AUTOVON system getting from one point
to another, but of course the transmissions are unintelligible to any
one listening in. If our officials desire to converse on NATO
matters, for instance, unclassified conversation could take place over
any telephone or voice system. Classified conversations, however,
would take place over the AUTOSEVOCOM system we have just described
or via the NATO Elcrovox secure voice system that, for Canada and the
United States, interconnect the NDOC in Ottawa thru SACLANT at Norfolk
to the Pentagon.
Colonel Goldfogle: Turning to the Automatic Voice Network, or
AUTOVON, that system is connected by a total of 60 switches within
the US and 9 in Canada. Switch locations are shown here.
Major Weisbrod: Each AUTOVON or CSN switch is connected to ten
other switches to form a poly-grid network.
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There are approximately 250 cross border trunks in the switch
network interconnecting the various switches, with approximately 200
US subscribers on the Canadian switches and 140 Canadian subscribers
on US switches. The main Canadian users of CSN/AUTOVON are located
in the Canadian Radar Squadrons, Interceptor Squadrons, and 22 NORAD
Region Hq of the NORAD/SAGE/BUIC systems.
Colonel Goldfogle: In addition, there are 139 AUTOVON access
lines crossing the border from a switch in the US, virtually all
directly to a US user in Canada. Of these 139, 131 are to NORAD
SAGE-BUIC locations, 2 are for NORAD voice alert, and 6 are part of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff alerting network out of Washington, and
for other similar specialized purposes.
Colonel Goldfogle: Now in addition to the AUTOVON system for
voice traffic, our next series of vugraphs will show 28 other existing
cross-border voice circuit groupings. We believe you will recognize
their use without any detailed explanation on our part. However, we
do have some further detail on many of those circuits listed, should
you wish that information at the conclusion of this presentation.
Colonel Goldfogle: Turning next to record communications systems,
the major system is the Automatic Digital Network, or AUTODIN. This
vugraph shows that there are presently three AUTODIN trunks crossing
the US/Canadian border. Two emanate from the Automatic Switching
Center at Andrews AFB near Washington and primarily connect into the
system the US units at Goose Bay, Labrador and Sondestrom in Greenland.
The third trunk connects Ottawa to the Automatic Switching Center at
Hancock, near Syracuse in New York State.
Major Weisbrod: From the Canadian point of view, the Defense
Data Network transfers traffic to AUTODIN via three common user
circuits:
Nanaimo - McChord
Ottawa Rockcliffe - Andrews
Halifax - Norfolk
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This enables transfer of on-line encrypted traffic classified
Secret or below. Continuing discussions are being held concerning
interconnection between AUTODIN and the future Strategic Automatic
Message Switching Network (SAMSON). It is planned to consolidate
the various cross-border teletype circuits, to the extent possible,
into a number of direct electrical automatic interfaces. This would
allow transfer of Top Secret traffic.
Colonel Goldfogle: In addition to AUTODIN for record traffic,
there are, as shown in our next two vugraphs, close to 60 other
circuit groupings crossing the border. Again, as with the similar
vugraphs we have shown for other voice circuits, we think you may
recognize the uses as shown and we will be happy to provide further
details on any of them should you so desire when this briefing is
concluded. My same comments apply to this vugraph depicting separate
data circuit groupings that traverse our mutual border.
Colonel Goldfogle: Having discussed up to now the means of
communication, voice and record, for passing information back and
forth across the border, how do we do it?
Major Weisbrod: Basically there are 5 ways. This vugraph
depicts some of the major systems. There is tropospheric scatter
radio or microwave radio, wire lines, or cable, underwater submarine
cable and, although not currently in use for our crossborder needs,
satellite communications. Any of these transmission media could be
government-owned or leased from commercial organizations. Commercial
and military equipment often interconnects to make the transmission
path complete.
Colonel Goldfogle: What we have presented this morning,
Gentlemen, is an overview of communications crossing the border between
the US and Canada. We have discussed the common-user and dedicated
voice systems, secure and non-secure, common-user, and dedicated record
systems, including teletype and data, and we have discussed the cross-
border transmission media that moves the communications to where it
needs to go.
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We hope this information has been useful to you and we, again,
appreciate being given the opportunity to make this presentation.
At this time we will gladly entertain any questions you may have
and, if we do not have sufficient answering information with us, we
will be glad to obtain it and provide it to you at a later time.
Thank you.
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