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Called UKUSA. * "A Spy Agency Admits Accumulating $4 Billion in Secret Money" * By Tim Weiner, The New York Times, May 16, 1996 * * In a complete collapse of accountability, NRO, the Government agency that * builds spy satellites, accumulated about $4 billion in uncounted secret * money. [First they said it was $1 billion, then $2 billion...] * * The new head of the agency, John Nelson, said that the secret agency had * undergone "a fundamental financial meltdown." * * The agency's secrecy made Congressional oversite next to impossible, * intelligence officials said. * * Just two years previously, the NRO constructed a "stealth building". * It was a $300 million new headquarters. The agency had explained that * happened because they treated the construction of the building as a * covert operation. A covert operation against whom? The Pentagon was in operational charge of the NRO. The NRO is a sister agency to the NSA. ************************************************** **************************** Key Recovery Means No Cryptography --- -------- ----- -- ------------ It's one way or the other. Zero or One. We either have uncrackable crypto, or crackable crypto, meaning no crypto. # "White House Challenged on Data Security" # By John Markoff, The New York Times, May 31, 1996 # # The United States Government should IMMEDIATELY relax export controls on # software products containing encryption and allow industries to set their # own standards. # # The report was prepared by the National Research Council of the National # Academy of Sciences, and stands in direct opposition to t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 4.3.4 cdHaCwIVuybXLf+SFuNGf3DOQRp3+Jc3smC1EztBhrqZxuJL96 4JissLgc7M84Jg qgUH6vqKtJqMu68A/wuiFzygKmybL/KSRLHndpPlWxNrVqYnzXo5ITvALvLmuxhv aZhcuEtqAffJeS8q0XCFi2LJgTmb0dSl3PFfYJEw6aM9oucyrI wDA15kxv5MTAvb pI5NXdJPf9O/Unar5iF5Snj55+cG2gQ5X91ELn== =HSLG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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