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seats alongside the NSA operators, at least in some areas,
are SIGINT specialists from Britain's Government Communications Headquarters
(GCHQ). According to a former Menwith Hill official, the two groups work
very closely together.
 

P229: David Watters, a telecommunications engineer once attached to the
CIA's communications research and development branch, pulls out a microwave
routing map of the greater Washington area and jabs his index finger at a
small circle with several lines entering it and the letters NSA. "There's
your smoking pistol right here." Watters says it is tied into the local
telephone company circuits, which are interconnected with the national
microwave telephone system owned by AT&T. Other specialists testified to
the same thing: purely domestic intercepts.
 
 
P223: "Technical know-how" for microwave communications intercept was
aided by William Baker, head of AT&T's Bell Laboratories and at the
same time an important member of the very secret NSA Scientific Advisory
Board. After all, it was Bell Labs under Baker that, to a great extent,
developed and perfected the very system that the NSA hoped to penetrate.
 
[
    "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984, ISBN 0-394-72375-9
    "A Chilling Account of the Computer's Threat to Society"
    FYI note: this document's opening quote is from this book.

    P122: For the last three decades the NSA has been a frequent and secret
    participant in regulatory matters before the Federal Communications
    Commission, where important decisions are made that directly affect
    the structure of the telephone company, the use of radio airwaves and
    the operation of communication satellites.
]
 
P317: 1962. Now, for the first time, NSA had begun turning its massive ear
inward toward its own citizens. With no laws or legislative charter to
block its path, the ear continued to turn.
 
 
P319: The Secret Service,