Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government move, announced in late January, was a reaction to a series of small, short work stoppages in recent years at the intelligence facility, Britain's equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).* Arguing that union membership meant divided loyalties-one Thatcher aide insisted that "the union movement in this country is totally unprincipled"-the government gave Cheltenham's 8,000 employees three choices...
...Like other members of the U.S. intelligence Establishment, NSA workers are forbidden to join unions...
...group representing Harvard and 21 other universities will present testimony today at a Congressional hearing opposing proposed cuts in National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NSA) funding...
...NSA was founded by President Truman in 1952, under the terms of a memo whose contents are still classified and inaccessible, even to Congress. No law has ever defined the permissible scope of activities of the NSA, yet its budget and staff are many times larger than any other American intelligence organization. Undoubtedly, the demands of national security require the surveillance of possible foreign agents. But the NSA remains unduly immune to public or Congressional oversight...
...dangerous potential of the NSA is obvious from incidents like the Jabara case. Congress should open an investigation of the NSA and its operations, especially the secret warrant process. If our government plans to expand its ability to keep track of its own citizens, the matter should at least be brought out into the open...