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Article #851Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!
From: jac54
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 10:49
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 10:49
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In article <1992Sep1.212509.28555@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes: >>Then there's the famous story about the time they were building CIA >>headquarters, and a local real estate developer wanted to know how >>many employees would be housed there, so he could plan some residential >>developments nearby. He was completely stonewalled, so he called the >>Soviet Embassy and they told him. They had it just about dead on. > > This story made my brand new Capt. Kelly bullshit detector >explode violently, and was only by sheerest luck that nobody was >injured. > I was going to say "it's an urban legend" but it's not even >as believable as crocodiles in the sewers. > Yes, but the story about the air-conditioning at Langley is true. The contractor wasn't given enough information to do anything other than guess what the requirements were. I have it on good authority that you can't tell the difference between the inside and the outside, summer or winter. Alec.
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!chemabs!jac54 From: jac54@cas.org () Subject: Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret! Message-ID: <1992Sep2.104951.3571@cas.org> Sender: usenet@cas.org Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio References: <1zhng-h.strnlght@netcom.com> <1992Sep1.194851.2062@bcars64a.bnr.ca> <1992Sep1.212509.28555@decuac.dec.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:49:51 GMT Lines: 20