title: TANS: The TANS Collection, Volume I
author:  John Klawitter 
description: The stories printed in TANS are true recollections by soldiers who have served in U.S. intelligence as radio repair men, dittyboppers, lingies, pilots, analysts and a wide range of other crafts and skills employed in the gathering, decoding, translation and evaluation of covert intelligence.
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  Nihil Obstat:
  
  
  George Smith, S.T.D., Ph.D.
  
  
  Censor Deputatus
  
  
  Imprimatur:
  
  
  E. Morrogh Bernard
  
  
  Vicar General
  
  
  Westminster
  
  
  June 9, 1951
  
  
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  Copyright © 2010 Saint Benedict Press, TAN Books.
  
  
  TAN Books is an imprint of Saint Benedict Press, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  
  
  First published in 1951, by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd. Retypeset and
  republished by TAN Books in 1997, by arrangement with Burns and Oates.
  Retypeset by TAN again in 2007. Retypeset in 2010 by Saint Benedict Press, TAN
  Books.
  
  
  All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in articles and
  critical reviews, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or
  stored in any form whatsoever, printed or electronic, without the prior
  written permission of the publisher.
  
  
  Published with the assistance of The Livingstone Corporation. Cover and
  interior design by Mark Wainright, The Livingstone Corpora