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Britain would not be the only country affected by a breach of GCHQ security. The Cheltenham facility is part of a four-nation intelligence net that also includes the U.S., Canada and Australia. GCHQ shares its cryptographic expertise with Washington's top-secret National Security Agency (NSA), an organization that gathers intelligence based on electronic eavesdropping. In return, the NSA passes on some of its intelligence and provides technical assistance. Moreover, the U.S. maintains spy bases in Britain whose data are processed at GCHQ, and Cray I, the complicated computer that does most of Cheltenham's decoding...
...head of the NSA, a supersecret agency that uses satellites, sophisticated monitoring techniques and more employees (more than 20,000) than the CIA (some 16,000) to gather intelligence information, Inman developed considerable rapport with congressional committees. When President Reagan was looking for a CIA chief in late 1980, Inman was pushed hard by diverse Capitol Hill backers, most notably Republican Senator Barry Goldwater. Instead, Reagan picked Casey, who had been his campaign director. A bit reluctantly, Inman left NSA to become Casey's deputy. Reagan talked him into it, he said, with "the smoothest job of arm twisting...
Inman's associates said, however, that the admiral chafed at playing second fiddle to Casey after running the NSA. When Casey came under fire last July for alleged business improprieties, Goldwater called for his resignation, hoping Inman would succeed him. But White House aides warned that if Casey were pushed out, Inman would not replace him and might be fired too-and the congressional pressure on Casey subsided. Inman contends that this fuss was "One of the most discomforting periods of my entire life. I found the invidious comparisons both unfair to Bill and embarrassing...
Yesterday, however, about six undergraduates who took advantage of an invitation circulated to Math concentrators received a sneak preview. Harold Masters of the NSA interviewed them at the Science Center yesterday, in search of, the invitation said, math undergraduates and graduates to help "define, formulate and solve complex, communications-related problems...
...NSA interviews are not open to Canadians or other foreign nationals living...