1st US Radio Intercept Station Built
America’s first transatlantic radio intercept station was built on Gillin Farm in Houlton, Maine, by the US Army MI-8 Radio Intelligence Service just before the end of WWI. The Houlton Radio Intelligence Station intercepted German diplomatic communications primarily from its Nauen high power radio station. The Radio Intelligence Service (R.I.S.) was created during World War [...]
Tagged 1918, Code Breaking, Gillin Farm, Houlton, Intelligence, MI8, Military, NSA, Radio, RIS, WW1