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More than once during the tangle that led to the disclosure to Ramparts of the CIA link, the NSA members involved must have felt like the non-heroes in LeCarre novels...
...story begins with Michael Wood, who was NSA director for development in 1965-66. Wood was "not-witty" -- spy jargon meaning the CIA had not informed him of the bond between the two organizations. He had learned about it privately from Phil Sherburne, then president of NSA and now at Harvard Law School...
Sherburne--who was "witty"--is the man most responsible for ending the relationship with the CIA. He was disturbed with the drain the CIA was causing on the emotional lives of those who had to maintain secrecy while still trying to be loyal to NSA. He realized, however, that NSA needed money...
Brown would like to see a "full public investigation," conducted by Congress, in which the CIA would be encouraged to declassify its files on domestic organizations. NSA has already offered to open all its files to a Congressional investigation. Such an investigation may be the only way to determine the extent of the CIA's influence over the NSA and other domestic organizations...
Tomorrow: How NSA's secret was disclosed, the nature of the CIA link, and NSA's future now that the link has been broken...