Oral History Interview with Al Stevens, March 27, 2006 Page: 2

                                
Schuyler, in the Bronx, in New York City, where I had my two months of
indoctrination.

Dr. Lindley:
Mr. Stevens:

And after that, what did the Navy do with you? Were you a lieutenant, or what was
your rank?
I was an Ensign. I was twenty-one years old. I was an Ensign. At INDOC School
there was a mixture of young men. Some as old as thirty-five who were JG's as they
enrolled. Most of us were young Ensigns. Before I finished INDOC School, I got my
orders to go to Harvard to the Navy Electronics School at the Harvard University
Law Emporium. I went there and enrolled and the duration was four months for me.
They gave us exams before hand to decide where to throw us into the five or six
months schedule that was there and I ended up with four months. I went from there
to the Harbor Building in South Boston, which was directly connected to MIT's,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electronics Instructional System. It was a
secluded, secret area on the top; I don't know, three, four, floors of the Harbor
Building where all classified information was brought out to us.
Harvard information was general electronics knowledge, not peculiar to Navy
activities. At the Harbor Building, all of the knowledge was directly procured and
classified.
There was four months of the necessary technical qualifications that I went through
and completed.
When I completed that I got another assignment from Washington, which directed
me to come to Washington for further education instruction in radar counter-
measures, which was, effectively, then, one level of secrecy higher than pure radar
engineering.
I went to Washington and took the instruction. Part of the instruction was conducted
in North Carolina on Ocracoke Island at an amphibious, quote, unquote, base, which
held sway at the south half of the island. The south half of the island was unoccupied
by civilians at that time. There was a Navy built Combat Information Center out on
the sand flats, which was part of the operation, the technical operation. The other part
was crash boats based in the lagoon there at the south end of the island. The
operation was to train us in use of the highly technical equipment and the tactical

possibilities for it. So, half of the class, and the class was very small. Actually, there
were twelve in our class, two Marines and ten from MIT.

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