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Re: Echelon's Origin
John Young <[email protected]> writes:
>The NSA released during the summer a Top Secret memorandum by Truman in
>1952 establishing NSA as the lead COMINT agency for the USG:
Located nearby at http://www.nsa.gov:8080/docs/efoia/released/jfk.html are
documents related to the Kennedy assassination. Check out the COMINT
reports, they were getting information from an awful lot of interesting
sources, many of which appear to be telegrams or telexes or similar
communications. The Truman memo may show the background behind Echelon,
but these things show it (or at least its ancestor) in action. Wow.
Peter.