Word: crypto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a lifetime of total immersion in football, Restic not only had a system but a name for it, too. Multiflex had the requisite crypto-military football sound, and it stuck. To understand--or, more realistically, to begin to understand--what that union of multiple and flexible means, one must consider Restic's football background...
...Boyce, the road to Lompoc began in 1975 when, with the aid of his father, a former FBI agent, he was hired by TRW, a conglomerate that, among other things, makes surveillance satellites for the CIA. A communications clerk, Boyce soon got "top secret" and "crypto" clearances that allowed him to handle highly classified documents. The college dropout found himself assigned to a sensitive job: transmitting coded spy information from the TRW installation in Redondo Beach, Calif., to CIA headquarters in Langley...