Abraham Sinkov

Abraham Sinkov (1907-1998) joined the US Army's Intelligence Service In 1930. In 1936, Dr. Sinkov was assigned to the Panama Canal Zone, where he established the U.S. Army's first permanent intercept site outside the continental US. After the war, Sinkov rejoined SIS, now renamed the Army Security Agency, and, in 1949, when the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA) was formed, Sinkov became chief of the Communications Security program. He remained in this position as AFSA made the transition into the National Security Agency. Sinkov retired from NSA in 1962.