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From: leonard@percival.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: UUCP traffic monitoring
Message-ID: <541@percival.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 21:39:00 EST
Article-I.D.: percival.541
Posted: Tue Apr 14 21:39:00 1987
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Reply-To: leonard@percival.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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In article <1982@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>My favorite moment in the history of the NSA is when it was shut down
>early this century by a bureaucrat who said "Gentlemen don't read other
>peoples' mail".  If you are upset about our dishonest President, why
>be complacent about the dishonest characters like the non-gentle-men
>who read our mail?

Sorry, John, but that wasn't the NSA. The NSA was created after WWII.
And the 'bureacrat' was Henry Stimson, the then Secretary of State.
Also note that he *did* approve of such 10 years later when he was
Secretary of War.

The comment was "gentlemen don't read each others mail". The 
group was a joint Army Intelligence/State Department effort.
They were using cryptanalysis on diplomatic traffic.


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