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According to the encyclopedia:

It was established in 1952 by a presidential directive from Harry S. Truman in which he specified its mission as

to provide an effective, unified organization and control of the communications intelligence activities of the United States conducted against foreign governments, to provide for integrated operational policies and procedures pertaining thereto.




The role of Information Assurance (i.e. keeping our stuff secure from them, not just breaking into their stuff) was added in 1990: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsd/nsd42.pdf




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