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Word: nsa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected to conclude this week. Observers were amazed by the Government's willingness to discuss publicly the various means used by the U.S. to intercept and analyze Soviet communications, spy-craft capabilities that had never been openly acknowledged. Said James Bamford, who wrote the authoritative 1982 study of NSA (The Puzzle Palace): "This is the furthest the Government has gone in any case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spilling Some Very Big Beans | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...weeks the Administration has forcefully been pressuring the press to withhold information strikingly similar to what was being openly disclosed in the Baltimore court. As the trial got under way, NSA Director William Odom and CIA Director William Casey issued an extraordinary statement admonishing / that the information revealed at the trial should not be a pretext for further disclosures about intelligence methods. Citing the "competing interests" of prosecutorial revelations and the need to protect the national security, the two intelligence chiefs warned reporters against "speculation and reporting details beyond the information actually released at trial." Allan Adler, legislative counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spilling Some Very Big Beans | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...start of his espionage trial in a Baltimore courthouse. For 14 years, Pelton worked in a low-level computer job at the top secret National Security Agency. He had a knowledge of Russian, access to sensitive intelligence data and, in later years, money troubles. After Pelton left the NSA in 1979, according to federal authorities, he started selling information to the Soviets. Accused spies like Pelton have been a cause of growing concern to the U.S. intelligence community. Lately, however, they have begun raising problems for the press as well. In covering spy cases, the media face a delicate dilemma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Questions of National Security | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Questions of National Security | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...search for only those acoustic features that are universal in certain words, no matter who speaks them. Advanced word-recognition systems using this technique are already in the hands of the National Security Agency, the top-secret Government bureau that monitors global communications networks. Eavesdropping on overseas telephone calls, NSA's supercomputers can pick out key words from among millions of simultaneous phone conversations, then isolate and tape-record any suspicious call for further investigation by human analysts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: His Master's (Digital) Voice | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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