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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Grenada - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 05:33:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 05:33:51 1983
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uokvax!rigney    Nov  5 03:07:00 1983

     I'm afraid (?) you're too fearful of  the  NSA.   Since
I've  been  researching a paper on Our Friends at Fort Meade
this term for a graduate poli-sci seminar  on  the  intelli-
gence community, this is something I'm keenly interested in.
While the NSA can (and therefore does) eavesdrop on all  ca-
ble  and  satcom  traffic across U.S. borders, the volume is
too high for them to do more than search for key phrases and
names  - they certainly wouldn't take the time to have a hu-
man read net submissions to determine who's for and  against
the Grenadan Invasion.  It's just not worth their time, when
they can be reading Russian diplomatic telegrams and similar
goodies instead.

     In fact, if you hadn't mentioned  them  by  name  there
would've  been  no  keywords  at  all in your message and it
would've been ignored, but now they've seen it, traced it to
your machine, found the terminal you entered it on, and have
your fingerprints.  And then slipped this message  onto  the
net  to  calm  your  fears,  while  they  move in.  It's too
late:-)

(In case anyone isn't sure, the first paragraph is  serious,
the  second  not.   And  if anyone's interested in the NSA I
recommend THE PUZZLE PALACE by James Bamford, now out in pa-
perback.)

	Not afraid to sign my name, such as it is

		Carl

		..!ctvax!uokvax!rigney
		..!duke!uok!uokvax!rigney

p.s.  Actually I don't believe lines to Canada are
monitored, but the TATs and satcoms for transmissions
to Europe are.