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From: nelson_p@apollo.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: long distance monitoring
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Date: 18 Apr 88 20:29:00 GMT
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>I believe that calls to all eastern block (bloc) countries are monitored
>or at least examined, after the fact, with the idea that specific keywords
>or projects need to be "noticed". For example, if there's a code word for
>"particular type of nuclear sub" and it keeps being mentioned in a call to
>Moscow, well, that's interesting to the NSA.
  
  Just out of curiosity, why do you believe this to be the case?  Did
  you read it somewhere (where?), did a friend tell you this, or what?
 
  I'm not saying it's true or not; it's come up before on the net, but
  nobody has ever presented any verifiable facts.  I *would* like to 
  call attention to a book called 'The Choking Doberman'.  This is 
  about 'urban folklore' such as spider-eggs-in-the-bubble-gum, 
  kangaroo-meat-in-hamburger, the-lady-who-dried-her-poodle-in-the-
  microwave, or Proctor-and-Gamble-being-satanists.  These and many
  others are stories which everyone has heard and which have made the
  rounds for years but for which nobody can claim a reliable source.
  The study of such (usually false) stories has become a whole academic
  field within anthropology.  

                                            --Peter Nelson