From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:18:03 +0800
To: Rich Salz <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: TOP_tap
Message-ID: <199601252156.NAA28359@netcom6.netcom.com>
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At 12:55 PM 1/25/96 -0500, Rich Salz wrote:
>Up until recently (18-30 months ago) NSA employees were only allowed
>to identify themselves as employees of DoD.  It was common knowledge,
>that unspecific references to Fort Meade meant NSA; and if you saw
>a P.O. from Procurement Office, Fort Meade, it meant the NSA was buying
>it.

Back in the dark ages (I think early 1980s), I attended a Symposium on
Operating System Princples at Asilomar, California.  My luck-of-the-draw
room mate was wearing a badge which proclaimed that he was from NSA, Fort
Mead, MD.  A story of California hippy meets US-DOD.

Bill