From: Dave Hart <davehart@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 11:46:52 PST
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com
Subject: Re:  NSA museum now open, if you can find it
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| From: Hal  <netmail!hfinney@shell.portal.com>
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| That museum sounds fascinating.  I got to visit the NSA's so-called
| "Friendship Annex" once on business.  This is not at Fort Meade itself,
| but a few miles away, to keep the impure and unclean away from the holy
| temple itself.
|
| Whoever named this place had quite a sense of irony; [...]

As documented in _The Puzzle Palace_, the name derives from Friendship 
International Airport, now known as Baltimore-Washington International 
Airport.  The Annex buildings are at the end of one of the runways.

Dave Hart		
davehart@microsoft.com
Not a Microsoft spokesperson