Word: dossier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind the cards are a $50 million computer system and sophisticated software that could enable a Big Brother government to create a dossier quickly that would tell it just about anything it wanted to know about anybody. The program, which runs on three top-of-the-line Control Data mainframes, is known as a relational data base, and it permits bureaucrats to correlate the files of otherwise disparate government offices. If the < necessary links to the revenue and police departments are put in place, a few key taps could cross-reference criminal records to tax records to religious and family...
...NICK NACK DOSSIER. The FBI gave Angleton a file full of tips from a Soviet military intelligence officer code-named "Nick Nack," who outlined Soviet penetrations around the world. Angleton, convinced that the agent was part of a Soviet plot to plant a mole, stuffed the report in a safe and ignored its contents. When Angleton's successor, George Kalaris, followed up the information, all of the 20 leads it contained resulted in arrests and convictions of important Soviet agents. "In each instance," says Mangold, "spies continued to operate for seven to 10 years because of Angleton's neglect...