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...Reagan Administration is belatedly moving to stanch this immense intelligence drain. The President has quietly signed a document known as National Security Decision Directive No. 145. It gives overall responsibility for ensuring the security of communications in the Government and the defense industry to the National Security Agency (NSA), the secrecy-shrouded behemoth whose primary function since its founding in 1952 has been the collection and analysis of other nations' communication traffic. Under Reagan's directive, the NSA will search for ways of protecting the integrity of sensitive telecommunications and federal computer information, which increasingly are two interrelated...
...total at between 2,000 and 3,000 units. One reason the Government has been slow to install scrambled lines has been the cost: each secure unit runs about $31,000. Another has been complaints from users that voice quality is poor. Even so, concedes Walter Deeley, the NSA'S deputy director for communications security, a study he conducted last year on communications security showed telephones to be the biggest leakage problem...
Working with five of the nation's largest manufacturers of telephone equipment, (AT&T, ITT, Motorola, RCA and GTE), NSA officials believe technology has been developed that will lead to what Deeley, in computer jargon, calls "a user-friendly secure phone" at a cost of less than $2,000 a unit. Scrambling units in current use weigh about 70 lbs. and take up the space of two filing-cabinet drawers. Electronics experts expect the new units to employ small, inexpensive microcircuits built directly into the telephone receiver. The scrambler converts signals produced by conversation into electronic "white noise" that...
...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...