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...NSA, founded in 1952 by a still secret presidential directive, is ten times the size of the CIA, employing a work force of 120,000, and has a yearly budget over $10 billion. Four-fifths of all U.S. intelligence is gathered by NSA operatives from secret stations all over the world. Ostensibly responsible for the deciphering of codes, the NSA even more than its little brother the CIA is an international network of terror and reaction in the service of U.S. imperalism...
Another memo, dated February 1967, refers to a Crimson article in which two Harvard students described how they helped Ramparts magazine reveal the CIA's subsidization of the National Student Association (NSA...
...monitoring of U.S. dissidents began with Lyndon Johnson's anxiety that foreigners were financing and organizing antiwar groups seeking to drive him from office. The FBI and CIA submitted watch lists. The Defense Intelligence Agency had the NSA monitor the foreign communications of about 20 Americans who were traveling to North Viet...
...legality of the operations is questionable. The committee arranged for Attorney General Edward Levi to appear this week to discuss the matter. Allen admitted that the NSA had obtained no warrants for any of the monitoring and that the agency had never sought a legal opinion on the subject from the Attorney General or the White House. He did point out that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird had known what was going on, as had two Attorneys General, John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst, before a third, Elliot Richardson, had finally called off the monitoring in 1973, on grounds of dubious legality...
ACLU Suit. The committee was not alone in its attentions to the NSA last week. In Washington's U.S. district court, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a $500 million class-action suit charging the NSA ,and CIA with running a large and illegal spying campaign against antiwar elements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The suit was brought on behalf of 7,200 individuals and 1,000 groups on which the two agencies supposedly kept files, monitored calls and cables and opened mail. Among the defendants are four communications companies-RCA Global Communications, ITT World Communications, Western...