Friday Night "Anything Goes" Thread

In a New History of NSA, Its Spies' Successes Are [Redacted]
Agency Tells Story but Keeps Victories Secret; The Day the Soviets Changed Their Codes - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122660908325125509.html

During the 1960s and early 1970s, the NSA officials who ran the Agency’s domestic watch-list/eavesdropping program (Minaret) disguised the origin of their reports because they “seemed to understand that the operation was disreputable if not outright illegal.”

NSA, once dubbed "No Such Agency," was created in a secret executive order in 1952 to intercept electronic communications through eavesdropping. It wasn't until 16 years later that its power to eavesdrop on foreigners was established in public law

According to the declassified report, government eavesdroppers generated half of their intelligence reports just after World War II from listening in on the French. Code breakers missed a key tip-off in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The report also suggests that, for the most part, the government couldn't crack high-grade Soviet communications codes between World War II and the 1970s.

The report's author, Thomas R. Johnson, declined to say how the edited history compares with the original version.

He spent more than six years writing the report, divided into four intelligence eras, that draws on his 34 years in government eavesdropping around the world. When friends asked him when they would read it, the 68-year-old would say: "We'll all be dead before this is declassified."

Historians are working to get their hands on a fourth volume that Mr. Johnson wrote about the NSA. Mr. Johnson says it includes "a couple of instances" during the 1980s where "somebody really made a bad error here and should have been fired.

"I hope it will come out," he says about the fourth volume. "It's still classified."

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We're having another family meal together tomorrow. It's lots of fun getting together. The discussions on political and economic issues are hot, but we always part as relatives, if not friends.

Night All!

ac

liberty yields harmony; tyrany yields chaos

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The rainy season is upon this Pacific Island, it has been dark and stormy (25 to 30 knot winds) all day. Dreary.

But alas there is a ray of sunshine in the gloom, comfort foods. What I like most about the cold-rainy season is the warmth of the kitchen, hanging out with friends, drinking red wine and cooking some Italian classics or some Eastern European meals that stick to your ribs and heat up your furnace.

Top the night off with a Hot Rum in the Hot Tub.

Of course if I had a nice girl to hang out with it would be even better :~(

That's about it for me this weekend.