Signal intelligence in the Gulf War

http://www.fas.org/spp/military/doco...ds/signals.htm

During the early days of February, it was reported that Soviet advisors were providing the Iraqi "military with information about the times US spy satellites pass overhead... The information on the Soviet action was gathered from what the sources described as an 'extremely sensitive source,' a term often use to describe communications intercepts."(13) And during the second week of February, it was reported that "Allied electronic eavesdroppers intercepted Russian voices communicating on Iraqi military radio channels... allied military and diplomatic officials doubt the intercepts were conversations from Russian-speaking Iraqis. The communications were overheard at the corps, division and battalion levels, indicating a large Soviet military presence with Iraqi ground forces."(14)

Signals intelligence was central to efforts to attack Iraqi leadership assets, including Saddam Hussein himself. "Saddam has changed his daily routine and movements as a result of disclosures that US air forces had targeted him, his family, his mistress and members of his family."