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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Fact or Fiction: NeXT Sells to the CIA
Message-ID: <160@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 16:01:16 GMT
References: <90331.113724SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch
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SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes:

>No one really knows for sure, but the buzz is that---apart from the box's
>undercover black design---the CIA likes the NeXT machine's enhanced
>digital processing and sampling capabilities, and will be writing its own
>program code.''

	Why do you find this so curious a story? These organizations which
confirm and deny nothing, have budgets and mandates they don't talk about,
have always looked to new technologies to support their missions - whatever
they are. 8-)