Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embarrassment that it caused the U.S., the Moscow sideshow was not unexpected. Last July, when Martin and Mitchell did not come back from a sum mer vacation, NSA men broke into Mitchell's home in Laurel, Md. They found the place a shambles, and they were par ticularly intrigued by a set of safe-deposit keys. Maryland State Police got a court order to open Mitchell's safe-deposit box in the State Bank of Laurel, and there, indeed, was the typewritten defection statement...
Belatedly, just about every security agency in Washington-both military and civilian-began working back over the Mitchell-Martin records and their own personnel clearance policies. NSA farms out the major part of its security checks to military intelligence agencies, and when the two men first came to work, neither the Office of Naval Intelligence nor the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations found a trace of trouble on their records...
Thinking back on their past behavior, NSA conceded that it was a bit odd. Martin, son of an Ellensburg, Wash. accountant, made a hobby of hypnotizing people. Mitchell, son of a Eureka, Calif. lawyer, was under psychiatric treatment...
Even more than the CIA, the National Security Agency prides itself on its secrecy and its security. Headquartered behind an electrified triple barbed-wire fence at Fort Meade, Md., NSA is the agency that formulates U.S. codes and tries to crack enemy codes. Behind the barbed-wire curtain last week hummed an unaccustomed turmoil of alarm: two NSA employees had disappeared...
Bernon F. Mitchell, 31, and William H. Martin, 29, both mathematicians doing statistical code analysis at NSA, went off June 24 on vacation together as usual. Ever since they first met as naval communications technicians in Japan in 1953, they had been close companions. Last Christmas they went to Cuba together...