The Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center (KRSOC, also pronounced "Kay-ARSock"), also known as the Kunia Tunnel or the Regional Signals Intelligence Operations Center Kunia, was a

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facility that was located on Kunia Road between Kunia Camp and

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in central

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. In 2012, the facility was replaced by the Hawaii Cryptologic Center.

History

In response to the attack on

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in 1941, the installation was designed and built as a bomb-proof, underground open bay with a floorspace to facilitate aircraft assembly in proximity to Wheeler Army Airfield. During the later part of World War II and in the decades that followed it was used primarily for

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and intelligence activities. Military units that occupied the structure include the U.S. Navy's Naval Security Group Activity Hawaii (a combination of the former NSGA Kunia and NSGA Pearl Harbor) and the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Corps 500th Military Intelligence Brigade.

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NSA/CSS Unveils New Hawaii Center
{{National Security Agency National Security Agency facilities Military installations in Hawaii

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