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Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!

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From: jac54
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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