Although Clapper is a traitorous scumbag, he was not an Army radio intel surveiller.
He served first as a Marine rifleman and then finished a degree and was commissioned as a Lt in the AF. He did command a SIGINT unit for two tours in VN as a lieutenant, but then moved fully into the intelligence field, rising to the rank of LtGen.
I flew with him a number of times when he was head of SAC intel. He was the airborne emergency actions officer on the old SAC Looking Glass and I was the battlestaff team chief. He was an odd duck then and everyone knew to be careful around him.
No surprise that he would be hired by the fascist Kenyan. He always seemed to pledge loyalty to anyone who would move him up.
I’d like to see him convicted and his military/government retirement taken from him.
Ok Marine- then AF surveill (read Laos SIGINT) but you are talking about SIGINT in early VN, the specifics of which are not mentioned much. Started out as Navy (and Marines were there too). 553rd Reconnaissance Wing. EC 121 retro/refitted Constellations, with transceivers to collect sensor data with a X band datalink radome and steerable dish to send signals to Nakon Phanome in Laos. To determine when to bomb HoChiMinh trail for truck traffic at the time... then later, bicycles.
Do appreciate your later backgrounder info— confirming he is grub worm, who would eat his own shite to advance. Signals— (there is an old expression about “radio men”- euphemism for signals, and the ability to have trust of them personally).
Used to be a radio operator at Barksdale 2AF HF radio station. Comm ck with Looking Glass every hour, 24/7/365.