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: *   In 1943 this resulted in the Britain-USA (Brusa) agreement to merge
: *   the Communications Intelligence (COMINT) agencies of both governments.
: *   
: *   One of the little-known features of Brusa was that President Roosevelt
: *   agreed that the two governments could spy on each others' citizens,
: *   without search warrants, by establishing "listening posts" on each
: *   others' territory.
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: *   
: *   According to several of the "old spies" who worked in Communications
: *   Intelligence, the NSA headquarters is also the chief British espionage
: *   base in the United States. The presence of British wiretappers at the
: *   keyboards of American eavesdropping computers is a closely guarded
: *   secret, one that very few people in the intelligence community have
: *   been aware of, but it is true.
: *   
: *   An American historian, David Kahn, first stumbled onto a corner of
: *   the British connection in 1966, while writing his book The Codebreakers.
: *   
: *   One indication of just how sensitive this information is considered on
: *   both sides of the Atlantic is the fact that Kahn's publishers in New
: *   York and London were put under enormous pressure to censor a great deal
: *   of the book. In the main, Kahn simply revealed the existence of the
: *   liaison relationship, but when he wrote that the NSA and its British
: *   equivalent, the Government Communications Headquarters, "exchange
: *   personnel on a temporary basis", he had come too close to revealing
: *   the truth.
: *   
: *   The U.S. government told Kahn to hide the existence of British
: *   electronic spies from the American public. Kahn eventuall