From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 04:11:09 +0800
To: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
Subject: Re: remarkable recent stories
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rsaltz:

> Several times I have heard NSA staffers talk about securing our
> secrets vs. reading theirs.  It seems that right now the first
> side is "winning."

This "Chinese Wall" exists in many other branches of the IC.

I saw this in a specific physical security area; Red Team tried to (say)
build a wall; Black Team worked on new ways through it. We (another
agency with an interest in walls) could & did get advice on
wall-building from Red; but the Blacks would not talk to either the Red
Team nor us.

Trying to predict the posture of the Fort _in general_ from the PhilZ
case strikes me as a less accurate than throwing darts blindfolded...
from a rollercoaster.

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