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*  Court Says U.S. Spy Agency Can Tap Overseas Messages
*  By David Burnham, The New York Times, 1982
*  
*  Washington, Nov 6 --- A Federal appeals court has ruled that the National
*  Security Agency may lawfully intercept messages between United States
*  citizens and people overseas, even if there is no cause to believe they
*  Americans are foreign agents, and then provide summaries of these messages
*  to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
*  
*  Because the National Security Agency is among the largest and most
*  secretive intelligence agencies and because MILLIONS of electronic messages
*  enter and leave the United States each day, lawyers familiar with the
*  intelligence agency consider the decision to mark a significant increase in
*  the legal authority of the government to keep track of its citizens.
*  
*  The mission of the NSA is to eavesdrop on electronic messages of foreign
*  governments and protect the electronic communications of the United States.
*  To accomplish these goals, the agency has SEVERAL THOUSAND listening posts
*  around the world and a HUGE bank of computers in its heavily guarded head-
*  qua