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From: wilde@apollo.uucp (Scott Wilde)
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Subject: Re: Suppression of research presentation
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 15:16:27 EDT
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>> There are many famous stories involving cryptographic papers and NSA - but
>> it is arguable whether NSA is part of DoD.
>
>As I recall it, if you look at the official organization chart, there is
>not much doubt.  The head of NSA reports to one of the people near the
>top of DoD.

As best as I can recall, although the NSA may be nominally responsible to
the DoD, they pretty much do as they please ( Sort of like the IRS :-) ).
Not that it affects the end result, since the NSA is more paranoid than the DoD 
ever thought of being.

                                       Scott Wilde
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