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APPENDIXBNSA LINGUISTIC CAPABILITYNSA has provided training for linguists in at least ninety-fivelanguages, including:AfrikaansAlbanianAlgerianAmharicArabicArmenianAzerbaijaniBasqueBelarussianBengaliBerberBulgarianBurmeseCambodianChinese, all dialectsCzechDanishDariDutchEgyptianEstonianFinnishFrenchGeorgianGermanGreekHaitian Creole (Kreyol)HebrewHindiHungarianIcelandicIlocanoIndonesianIraqiItalianJapaneseJordanianKazakhKirghizKoreanKurdish554
555KuwaitiLaoLatvianLevantineLibyanLingalaLithuanianMacedonianMalaysianMoldovanMongolianMoroccanNepaliNorwegianPapiamentoPashtoPersian-FarsiPolishPortuguese, all dialectsPunjabiPushtoQuechuaRomanianRussianSaudiSerbo-CroatianSinhaleseSlovakSlovene (Slovenian)SomaliSothoSpanishSudaneseSwahiliSwedishSyrianTagalogTajikTamilThaiTibetanTigrinyaTurkishTurkmenTunisianUkrainian
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ACCLAIM FOR JAMES BAMFORD'SBODY OF
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FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, APRIL 2
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSMy most sincere than
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CHAPTER ONE MEMORYKVZIEBCEN CKYIECD
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profile." Nevertheless, he gave his
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team of American and British codebr
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called Bletchley Park that the futu
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Koniginpastete and the russische Ei
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Germans had departed with such hast
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without his knowledge," said one TI
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intercept operators, to handle the
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developed to divert a single signal
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in the late forties, and later head
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Security Agency. Odonovich commande
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eview. The review then pointed a fi
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CHAPTER THREE NERVESJFKH WRXSHN WRL
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would keep his ears finely tuned fo
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of pins to mark the hot spots. On J
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cryptanalysis and traffic analysis.
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needs, and still you cannot shoot d
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face plate frosted over."Half in an
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and continued its flight deep into
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can say he didn't know about this o
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At 8:40 A.M. on May 24, shortly bef
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eject the investigation. "The speec
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would the President think if there
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such forces to the utmost."In his l
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covered his formal blue uniform and
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General Eisenhower in London and la
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About 2:15, following the swearing-
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possibly in a bomber or bomber trai
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Following Kennedy's order, CIA plan
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near the Windward Passage," said on
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Robert McNamara finally lowered the
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very young people who have been bro
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had a different idea. They proposed
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"sell" the incident.Finally, there
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Because so many documents were dest
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CHAPTER FIVE EYESKPYNTKA' ABPYHTO R
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antenna was installed on its fantai
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sixteen-year-old, he slipped into W
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With the enormous focus on Cuba, Bl
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With the Oxford now in place, the a
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Navy and Air Force operational worl
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the sound barrier. Then you feel it
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adar tracking from radar stations t
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Navy ships began leaving port to ge
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high level of flight activity over
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the NSA Command Center flashed word
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headquarters, "Havana east, and pos
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noted in the long secret memorandum
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As the Russians began withdrawing,
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wires were strung to pick up the ve
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skipper. We had scuttles fore and a
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would be involved. Vallejo also rei
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the assassination, NSA initiated a
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the "alarming . . . anti-Communist
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(e.g. President Kennedy in October,
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were to break out, Arnold cautioned
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from space, at one point Russian an
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land. Like anthropologists discover
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in Washington.Around the world, on
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able to pick up signals from Soviet
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mobile intercept vans and trucks to
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farmers sipped çay from glass cups
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several days. B-29 raids followed,
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eavesdropping missions near the coa
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They would not let us have autos an
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forgotten dependency of Mauritius,
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said, "which had never been, and ne
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Nearby were two Mark 45 nuclear-tip
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Russians were aggressively searchin
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nation—the most modern submarine
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Organization of American States wer
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States, the Sigint operators on the
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personnel, six officers and 110 enl
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Congo), where a U.S. Navy plane wou
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CHAPTER SEVEN BLOODCYASJA EJLKBJ OJ
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South America; and the USNS Muller
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said somewhat quizzically. "You're
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government intended to protest Egyp
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Force eavesdropping missions throug
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journey toward the war zone as the
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the plane departed, he called up Sc
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them.As the Liberty sat within eyes
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Commander Pinchas Pinchasy, the nav
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shore, thirteen miles away, let alo
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earliest intelligence that the Russ
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linguist broke out the white canvas
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screaming at him probably, and fina
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despite seeing it on my spectrum an
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operators, analysts, and communicat
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to return to Athens. We recorded vo
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Tordella was told that some senior
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Black smoke was still escaping thro
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imposed. Crewmembers were threatene
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they dealt principally with such to
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"He asked if a mistake of this sort
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identified by Israeli military forc
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information the LIBERTY was interce
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CHAPTER EIGHT SPINEVGWEQVSM SVWEDQS
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who would frequently discuss with t
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was walking quickly up a sidewalk o
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ecording it. By then the plane was
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therefore was a special mission as
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primarily Vladivostok and secondari
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the seas were calm, the humidity wa
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From "Venus" to "Mars,"Charley shoo
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a few things at them and they'll go
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shore command that he had halted th
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unning the show at that particular
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attempt to burn the documents rathe
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Within days the document would be o
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enormously secret deliberation. "No
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indicated that Chinese radar did de
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"What's your status?! Your function
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of the Pueblo crew. But for nearly
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gone. While the Navy shudders and s
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CHAPTER NINE ADRENALINEI.G. EOPVJEV
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Vietnam in 1941 disguised as a Chin
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1961, Vietnam was a wave in the dis
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several inches deep.Separating the
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Miguel in the Philippines. Other me
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hunting. Sitting in front of racks
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It was an order to attack the ship
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impending second attack on August 4
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network was built linking sites at
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procedures, the formats and numerou
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such flights," said an NSA report o
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growing cloud of electrons would fo
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Walter G. Deeley. "Ground sweeps se
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morale: he created a photomontage o
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The Sigint personnel and the rest o
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the wings, giving the diminutive sp
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Bailey. "It had such a broad covera
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dry air and the oxygen they had to
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Saigon for a one-year tour in Vietn
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Parks, "was to act as a checkpoint
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"If SD and SSD [both were Vietcong
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headquarters was upbeat, like the b
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hours. After each advance, we would
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war.Some soldiers who physically su
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udget. He called them "bureaucrats
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pilots in Vietnam were being shot d
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assigned to maintain the Explorer e
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thing left was Operation Frequent W
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NSA: 2:07 AM, APRIL 30A PRESIDENTIA
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THE BUILDING.NSA: 5:48 AMSOUTH VIET
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CHAPTER TEN FATGTPEX UQLX KQEH TI S
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Intelligence Activities called NSA
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know whether I was even allowed to
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ionization of the chemical mixture.
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engineer, the mathematical calculat
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three thousand or thirty-two hundre
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sunburned desert, corrugated scrubl
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more like a giant Soviet lake than
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oom: the sounds were loud and clear
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profit. Guerin was to work secretly
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Congress he was the wonder boy, the
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While most saw only the confident,
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machine, with its own army, navy, a
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eventual failure. Angered that his
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uildings for the Technology and Sys
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policies and could lead to war. As
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een one of four people nominated by
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and many employees sit in front of
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"Knowledge is power," said Liberal
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easons." But when a senior GCHQ off
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Despite the end of the Cold War, th
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codenamed Echelon.During the 1980s,
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overtime attempting to log and prog
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phrases, telephone and fax numbers,
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sailors on the USS Stark in 1987. C
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weaponry in unstable regions, and r
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affected a long-planned trip to Teh
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market arms sales," said one former
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ship containing the "special items"
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to have to spread its resources acr
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Geneva for the start of the latest
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with secrecy and power. By then Lou
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eventually convinced Nixon to drop
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over as acting FBI director, follow
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member, would be permitted to be br
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I countered with the observation th
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with applicable law. Where the comm
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In 1994 a forty-seven-page document
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put her in the category of a full-t
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terms are used, the context of the
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which is a U.S. official, the tape
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Everything."The director ordered an
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A year after the crash, with comput
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enemies and allies; a global inform
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1995, the agency received about 1,5
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olling out miles and miles of new c
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were frightening. Within seven year
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may be programmed in 2001 for a sys
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will not tell you who called me. I
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leadership crisis for the better pa
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to come. These included chief of NS
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theory the CIA director is responsi
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2. OBJECTIVE: THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS
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In a large sense, the changing phil
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Ranking in size among the top 4.8 p
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Others have included Harvest; 3000
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codebreaking and appetite. When the
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Blue badges are worn by those who h
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warn "Don't Spill the Beans, Partne
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hours in the warm sun, the group he
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Next, on those same days, is an ear
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mathematician George R. Cotter. He
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Center, the very heart of NSA's wor
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was launched, what trajectory it's
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scientists. They locate important s
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Inside the offices, some people scr
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secret version of CNN. As the Defen
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the CIA's Office of Advanced Projec
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interest—nuclear weapon transfers
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shrink its Mount Everest of forbidd
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various workstations. Then, after c
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complex of the Cold War, is a cozy
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At Crypto City's new NSA Graduate S
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN SOULTRZAV DUZR QYK
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average NSA manager is more introve
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stochastic processes and other tech
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2,000 or so people who applied annu
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NSA, 78 percent of all information
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for an independent review of accura
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machines. "Polygraphing has been de
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what he called the excellent monito
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Devon, cutting 250 jobs.As at NSA,
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satellites were dying of old age an
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Prettyman retired from her job as c
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Security Command, it sought "a grou
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Southern California, who claim to h
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esearch grants, to mathematicians a
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In an effort to ease tensions, an O
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[deputy directors] who were in plac
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only telephoned the defense attorne
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world-class organization; NSA is th
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was king. "Just as control of indus
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Lieutenant General Ralph Canine. Af
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high-quality workforce. All of that
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN BRAINWDLDXTDKS'B A
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fight he found the contractors less
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and Engineering but a cocktail part
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Awarded $25 million by Congress, an
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Like misers hoarding every last pen
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Page 507 and 508: As a result of such worries, NSA, w
Page 509 and 510: agency named Frostberg. Used until
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Page 523 and 524: AFTERWORD"This is Morning Edition f
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Page 527 and 528: $2,400 each—but were waiting in t
Page 529 and 530: By 8:15, the air traffic controller
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Page 535 and 536: controller. "He's in coast track bu
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Page 541 and 542: O'Brien. "This must be a fighter. T
Page 543 and 544: nearby United flight to see if they
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Page 547 and 548: Steve Mclntyre. "But outside I coul
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Page 561 and 562: NOTESABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTE
Page 563 and 564: Nazi Codes (Bri-arcliff Manor, NY:
Page 565 and 566: 23 "Russia's prejudice": War Depart
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Page 569 and 570: 46 "If I could become a missile": i
Page 571 and 572: 60 "just gobbledy-gook": Beschloss,
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Page 575 and 576: 89 "Any of the contrived situations
Page 577 and 578: 101 "Concentrated efforts have been
Page 579 and 580: 112 At 1:00 P.M. the Strategic Air
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Page 589 and 590: Marvin E. Nowicki to author, March
Page 591 and 592: 204 "I reported this detection": "A
Page 593 and 594: 219 the torpedo boats continued: or
Page 595 and 596: AMEU (June 8, 1997).230 "The govern
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Page 599 and 600: the A-12 come from Paul F. Crickmor
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333 "Evening missions were usually
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(1213Z April 29,1975). 349 "THE AMB
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(DDEL, White House Office, Office o
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that if I didn't": Anson, "Requiem
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394 UKUSA Communications Intelligen
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408 "satellite communications proce
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Chamber of Commerce (June 29, 1990)
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memorandum from W9R3 to W Group Rep
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456 "The term 'warlordism' ": inter
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12, 1997. 465 "If you can see": NSA
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479 "Sometimes that's a very small
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486 "All American Festival": NSA, "
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Raymond T. Tate lecture, p. 30.503
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515 Beamrider: ibid., pp. 272-74.51
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526 "This building": NSA, Tom Johns
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11-12.535 Rob Fuggetta: This accoun
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Border Site 1958-1993." Web posting
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553 a shortage of Berber translator
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History of Admiral Bobby Ray Inman
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Only One Spy Probe?" Washington Pos
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585 "We had in the past": NSA, Secr
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Engineering Times (October 14, 1996
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Scientists Are Poised for Revolutio
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and Susan Page, "CIA Recovering Aft
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Warren E. Leary, "Years to Build an
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