Re: (fwd) Re: NSA Helped Yeltsin Foil 1991 Coup

[jim@bilbo.suite.com (Jim Miller)]

: It describes how Bush passed on transcripts of encrypted conversations  

: between the leaders of 1991's failed Soviet coup to Boris Yeltsin.  


:     "As soon as the coup started on 18 August, 1991, the NSA,
:     America's largest intelligence organization was able to decrypt
:     conversations between the coup's two leaders, Vladimir Kryuchkov,


How does the author of the article know that the NSA *decrypted* the  
conversations?  For all we know, the NSA learned of the coup from  
stratigically placed bugs or other mundane technology.

Jim_Miller@suite.com