From: Risto Lankinen on
which
* involved a quick and secret deployment of a major United States effort
* of F.B.I.," and emergency, health and Army forces.
*
* "Because we had A TIP OF A POSSIBLE TERRORIST INCIDENT which, thank
* goodness, did not materialize," the President added.
*
* However, the F.B.I. later stated it was investigating it as a hoax threat.
* A Justice Department spokesman said it was "completely inaccurate" to
* describe the incident as anything other than a hoax.

And how did the President, who said he was 'intimately familiar' with the
incident, come to believe that it was an [informer] tip about a possible
threat, and not an anonymous hoax threat?

The American people are not the only ones the NSA/FBI lie to...

Notice how secrecy keeps playing a major part in all this...June 28, 1996,
NYT, "Lawmaker Tells of High Cost of Keeping Secret Data Secret", the House
intelligence committee said, not even including the CIA, the U.S. spends
FIVE POINT SIX BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR (twice the annual combined budgets of
the FBI and DEA) on "a document classification system stuck on autopilot,
indiscriminately stamping 'Top Secret' on thousands of documents every year."

ECHELON generates 90% of those documents. Machines.

5/24/1992 The Washington Post Parade Magazine:
The Pentagon even labelled as not only SECRET but NOFORN---which means
they cannot even be shared with our allies---anti-


From: Matthew T. Russotto on
*
* But the wall had fallen, and Russia had a complete upheaval too. The FBI
* agent's linkage of his wife to "national security" seemed absurd. The
* agent, however, did not share George's amused astonishment.
*
* "Don't mock me," the couple remembers Emmett warning them.
*
* She had subscribed to the magazine for its impressive photography, and
* had written to the Soviet embassy to thank them for sending an icebreaker
* to free some whales, as suggested by a television show host.

How foolish of her to put her real name and return address on the letter.

* "Teen Sues FBI, Wants FBI File Purged", NYT, 11/12/89
*
* Todd Patterson, 17, became the object of an FBI investigation when he
* wrote to foreign governments as part of a sixth-grade project. He says
* he is interested in a Foreign Service career and worries about the
* effect the FBI files might have on his chances of obtaining security
* clearances. [snip]
*
* The Pattersons said that they b


From: quasi on
"
FYI note: this document's opening quote is from this book.

P122: For the last three decades the NSA has been a frequent and secret
participant in regulatory matters before the Federal Communications
Commission, where important decisions are made that directly affect
the structure of the telephone company, the use of radio airwaves and
the operation of communication satellites.
]

P317: 1962. Now, for the first time, NSA had begun turning its massive ear
inward toward its own citizens. With no laws or legislative charter to
block its path, the ear continued to turn.


P319: The Secret Service, the CIA, the FBI and the DIA submitted entries
for the NSA's watch list.

The names on the various watch lists ranged from members of radical political
groups to celebrities to ordinary citizens involved in protest against their
government.

Included were such well-known figures as Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, Dr. Benjamin
Spock, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverand Ralph Abernathy, Black
Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, and Chicago Seven defendants Abbie Hoffman
and David T. Dellinger.

A frightening side effect of the watch list program was the tendency of most
lists to grow, expanding far beyond their original intent. This multiplier
effect was caused by the inclusion of names of people who came in contact
with those per


From: Risto Lankinen on
An Indictment of the U.S. Government and U.S. Politics


Cryptography Manifesto
----------------------
By guy(a)panix.com
7/4/97-L version


"The law does not allow me to testify on any aspect of the
National Security Agency, even to the Senate Intelligence
Committee" ---General Allen, Director of the NSA, 1975


"You bastards!" ---guy


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This is about much more than just cryptography. It is also about
everyone in the U.S.A. being fingerprinted for a defacto national
ID card, about massive illegal domestic spying by the NSA, about
the Military being in control of key politicians, about always
being in a state of war, and about cybernetic control of society.

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From: Matthew T. Russotto on
broad definition of intelligence that was fostered by the National
Security Agency and its godfather, the National Security Council.

Computer research was supported by NSA in a major way by secret research
dollars. Thomas C. Reed, Director of the Pentagon's Telecommunications,
Command and Control System, referring to domestic intercity telephone
microwave radio trunks, said in 1975, "Modern computer techniques make
it possible to sort through that traffic and find target conversations
easily."

p126-127: Since the wiretap law barred the Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs from installing a tap on New York City's Grand Central
Station pay phones, bureau head John Ingersoll asked the NSA for help.

Within a few months the spy agency was sorting through all the
conversations it was already acquiring for general intelligence
purposes.

Of course, the technicians were required to acquire, monitor, and
discard a large number of calls made by people with no connection
with the cocain