Wasn't it once labelled as "No Such Agency" .......... ?
James Bamford did a good write up in his lengthy mid 1980s book "The Puzzle
Palace".
jh
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From: "Bob Whitmire" <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 28 December, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Self-Confessed Crypto-fascist (OT)
>
> Ah, well, for what it's worth, there was a time in my life when many
> people would have labeled me a crypto-fascist. That's back during the
> Vietnam era when I served in Vietnam, and later in Ethiopia (the part
> that's now Eritrea), with the Army Security Agency, which was an
> interesting assortment of communications and code spooks working
> under the auspices of a very large and largely (then) secret
> government agency which has of late been in the news for telephone
> intercepts of suspected terrorist communications. Because my job
> basically involved crypto work, and I was a member of the U.S.
> military and therefore in the eyes of many a fascist oppressor and
> shameless squasher of freedoms, It would not have been beyond the
> pale to have labeled me a bona-fide crypto-fascist.
>
> Alas, I am no longer young enough or nimble enough to goose step.
>
> --Bob
>
> Hum. I wonder how many secret words are in this communication that
> might bring it to the attention of the above-mentioned largely secret
> but now much publicized government agency? If I go dark on you,
> someone sound the alarm! (Back in the day the term was not dark, but
> rather "nil-heard.")
>
>
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