Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cocktail parties and in the corridors of Government buildings, the disagreement put Defense Secretary Robert McNamara on one side, plagued by doubts about the value of the bombing, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the other, supported by the President, the State Department and McNamara's own Pentagon...
...agency's 15,000-odd employees actually go out into the cold. At Langley's elaborate seventh-floor operations center, a bank of high-speed (100 words per minute) printers receive top-secret traffic from the National Security Agency, diplomatic reports from embassies overseas, information from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as data from CIA men around the world. In Helms's office, there are "secure" red, grey, blue or white direct-line phones with scramblers attached-on which the President often calls...
...operations room is hooked into the White House Situation Room, the Pentagon's military command post, and the State Department through a near-miraculous phalanx of teletype machines. One data page per minute can be fed in, encoded, flashed to one of the centers, then decoded the instant it arrives. Down the hall from the operations center is a room papered with huge maps. On one set, the war in Viet Nam is plotted with up-to-the-hour reports of combat action and other trouble spots. Another chart may track the course of a Soviet ship bound from...
...week after he returned, Stoughton got orders transferring him out of the White House. He is now stationed in an obscure Pentagon office, and will soon retire. How does he feel about all the anonymous pictures he has taken? "The President knows I took them," he says. "I know I took them. My wife knows I took them. I guess that's enough credit...
...sounds formidable; yet even the Pentagon admits that the costliest contemplated ABM system cannot buy complete security. Why not? Because scientists have already learned a great deal about how to penetrate an ABM system...