Nsa Eases Secrecy A Bit Giving Glimpse Of Past
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on December 7, 2008
Many of the country’s secret code-breakers and eavesdroppers are hidden behind the National Security Agency’s fortifications.
“It does not pay to advertise your successes,” said Patrick D. Weadon, a senior NSA official. “There is always a danger when you lift the curtain ever so slightly.”
But even this agency is under pressure to loosen up. The NSA relies on the U.S. public for its $8 billion budget. It needs good relations with Congress. And it must recruit talented linguists, mathematicians, analysts and technicians.
Those folks aren’t going to work for NSA “if you get people convinced that this is an agency doing things to them rather than for them,” said Bill Nolte, a former NSA and CIA official who is a research professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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