From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:31:35 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net
Subject: Re: Downsizing the NSA
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From:	IN%"tcmay@got.net" 28-JAN-1996 03:47:14.08

>However, as Phill notes, the NSA and other intelligence agencies are now in
that most dangerous of positions: a powerful agency or department casting
about for something to do.

Spying on citizens and keeping the keys to their private communications and
diaries is not an appropriate option.

AT&T is downsizing, IBM downsized a while back, so why couldn't the NSA
just do the right thing: admit that the Soviet threat is no more,
congratulate the victors, and downsize by 20,000 employees?
-------------------
	Funny, everyone seems to forget about China. If I were dictating NSA
policies, I'd simply reassign the people to China. Admittedly, modern
cryptography makes some of it useless, but HUMINT to get (parts of) codes
is still quite possible.
	-Allen