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Meanwhile the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology will decide next week whether to prohibit the National Security Agency (NSA) from controlling certain kinds of scientific information, a House aide who spoke on condition of anonymity said yesterday...
...House bill, entitled the "Computer SecurityAct of 1987,' would prohibit NSA and the DefenseDepartment from exerting control over electronicinformation...
...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...
...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...
...Pelton trial was unusual, it was far from complete. Federal prosecutors charged that Pelton sold the Soviets information about five U.S. communication "projects," but they were identified merely as A through E and the way they functioned was described only cryptically. Hubert Atwater, a former co-worker at NSA, testified that Project A involved equipment that intercepted "a particular Soviet communications link." The Post reported that the operation used U.S. submarines operating in the Sea of Okhotsk, off the Soviet eastern coast. Another ex-colleague identified Project B as an "ongoing operation" to upgrade equipment used in collecting and analyzing...