Word: code
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...first report to rouse Casey's ire came on Monday's edition of NBC's Today show. Giving a preview of the Pelton trial, Correspondent James Polk reported that the accused spy "apparently gave away one of the NSA's most sensitive secrets--a project with the code name Ivy Bells, believed to be a top-secret underwater eavesdropping operation by American submarines inside Russian harbors...
Polk's report gave Casey a chance to act on a warning he had issued three weeks earlier, when he said that he was weighing legal action against several publications for allegedly printing details of U.S. intelligence-gathering operations. His weapon: Section 798 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code. Passed into law in 1951, the statute forbids the disclosure of classified information about secret codes and other communications intelligence. Though no news organization has ever been prosecuted under the law, Casey cited the Washington Post, Washington Times, New York Times, TIME and Newsweek for unspecified violations...
...move "caught us by surprise," since the network had aired virtually the same report last November, when Pelton was arrested. Indeed, details on similar submarine eavesdropping operations were revealed in articles in the New York Times and Washington Post as early as the mid-1970s, and the code name Ivy Bells was used by Pelton's attorney in a pretrial hearing...
Coming shortly after the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, the Taylor murder and its accoutrements of drugs and sex led to the creation of the Hays Office and its puritanical Production Code. For nearly 30 years, Hollywood films were forbidden to show even a married couple making love or to allow the use of words like pregnant or virgin. The careers of Normand and Minter were ruined, but nobody was ever prosecuted for the Taylor murder...
...weeks ago seemed the least likely champion of sweeping reform, raised his arms in triumph. Joining hands in the committee room celebration was an unlikely combination of allies: Russell Long, the shrewd Louisiana Democrat who for 37 years in the Senate has played the fine print of the tax code like a fiddler at a fais-dodo; Majority Leader Robert Dole, who once argued that tax reform was a lower priority than deficit reduction but who now promises to push through the measure on the Senate floor next month; and Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat who for five years...