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...special services ? linked to the battle against international terrorism." Which is almost like saying they didn't do it and if they did he wouldn't admit it. The day before Short made her charge, the British government dropped its prosecution of Katharine Gun, a former translator at its ultrasecret electronic-eavesdropping agency, gchq. She had leaked to a newspaper a memo written by Frank Koza, an official at gchq's American cousin, the National Security Agency, as Washington and London were pushing for a second resolution authorizing war in Iraq. Koza asked for help intercepting the phone calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy Games | 2/29/2004 | See Source »

...economy has lost billions of dollars through idled offices and factories, spoiled food and interrupted travel, maybe President Bush and the Republican congressional leadership would like to tell us how the glorious "free market" is going to prevent further catastrophic blackouts. Maybe Dick Cheney's ultrasecret energy task force has that information in its notes, which the Vice President adamantly refuses to share with his employers, the American people. STEPHEN KRIZ Maple Grove, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 2003 | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

SPECIAL OPS Includes Green Berets, Rangers, SEALs and the ultrasecret Delta Force, trained for unconventional missions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Search And Destroy | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...typically might include a highly classified briefing book from the State Department's Intelligence and Research Bureau, analyzing developments around the world. (In this case the mystery visitor left the briefing book behind.) The pouch could also have contained the daily digest of National Security Agency intercepts gathered by ultrasecret satellites and listening devices. These often bear the special code-word classification UMBRA, a category beyond TOP SECRET, reserved for the most sensitive electronic intelligence. Most riveting would have been pages of NSA intercepts dealing with Iraq. Typically, the NSA targets not only hostile countries but also U.S. allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Purloined Papers? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...foray into Laos to search for MIAs. Despite warnings, Jerry King insisted on helping him; ISA supplied Gritz with two cameras, plane tickets, parts for a lie detector and, Gritz claimed, $40,000 in cash. The preparations for Gritz's raid are said to have crossed wires with an ultrasecret plan by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff to send American military forces into Laos to hunt for MIAs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Army | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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