-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
in the intelligence community have
: * been aware of, but it is true.
: *
: * An American historian, David Kahn, first stumbled onto a corner of
: * the British connection in 1966, while writing his book The
Codebreakers.
: *
: * One indication of just how sensitive this information is considered
on
: * both sides of the Atlantic is the fact that Kahn's publishers in New
: * York and London were put under enormous pressure to censor a great
deal
: * of the book. In the main, Kahn simply revealed the existence of the
: * liaison relation****p, but when he wrote that the NSA and its British
: * equivalent, the Government Communications Headquarters, "exchange
: * personnel on a tem****ary basis", he had come too close to revealing
: * the truth.
: *
: * The U.S. government told Kahn to hide the existence of British
: * electronic spies from the American public. Kahn eventually agreed
: * to delete a few of the most sensitive paragraphs describing the
: * exchange of codes, techniques, and personnel with the British
: * government
: *
: * His innocuous few sentences threatened to disclose a larger truth.
: *
: * By the 1960s the "tem****ary" British personnel at Fort Meade had
: * become a permanent fixture. The British enjoyed continued access
: * to the greatest listening post in the world.
: *
: * The NSA is a giant vacuum cleaner. It sucks in every form of
: * electronic communication. from telephone calls to telegrams,
: * across the United
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGPfreeware 6.8.1
7Dd727xhrF2bfwUkN+/El4B1nU4pXmPXEUAHR1d14/3SmclJHBSS2/dJCZReW8wu
Yt2Hjnwu8vJRee8/Ka3zyJN79dzeoOiMoch1MqRzu3YaqxDERZV1cqC3ZGp5lLJ6
vnpzL5PhdckFhHpMA/J0Q+Tr9oso2wb0gaXzcb6HXeG3SEBw2tN9uui1ZlfDL5/M
gyKTsHsW65YBeuNDH98r5z==
=bpsQ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
