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'''Monitoring Station Designators''' were used by the [[United States Army]] [[Signals Intelligence Service]] to designate a specific signal intelligence monitoring station in order to allow analysts to understand the source and type of [[SIGINT]] they were analyzing. These were used as shorthand rather than writing or typing out the PLA (Plain Language Address), which consisted of the formal unit name and ___location of the unit who performed the signals collection.<ref name="abbr">{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.scribd.com/doc/70575044/Guide-to-Historical-Cryptologic-Acronyms-and-Abbreviations-Pre-NSA-SIGINT-Timeline|title=Guide to Cryptologic Acronyms & Abbreviations, 1940-1980|date=October 2002|accessdate=6 Jul 2013|page=27}}</ref><ref name="hell">{{cite web|url=http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/wwii/eavesdropping.pdf|title=Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945|date=2005|accessdate=6 Jul 2013|page=135}}</ref>

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