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This is a fact, not a matter of conjecture
: *   or a conclusion based on anonymous sources.
: *   
: *   In the early 1980s, during the Reagan administration, one of the authors
: *   of this book submitted to the intelligence community a draft of a
: *   manuscript that briefly described the wiretap shell game and mentioned
: *   the secrecy provisions concerning British liaison relationships with
: *   the NSA have escaped congressional knowledge.
: *   
: *   The result was an uproar.
: *   
: *   The intelligence community insisted that all passages explaining the
: *   British wiretap program had to be censored and provided a list of
: *   specific deletions.


Mini-recap:

    o The countries sharing intelligence: US, UK, Canada, Australia

    o Massive domestic spying by the NSA, using an Orwellian "1984"
      technology to search all communications using computers, including
      domestic phone calls.

    o Circumvention of domestic spy laws via friendly "foreign" agents.


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But could that be true?

Could such a massive disregard for the Constitution have taken place under
the cheesy logic said to be used by the Military? NSA is Military, headed
by a uniformed officer.

Could it possibly be true?

It's some over-the-top conspiracy theory, right?



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                            Over the Top
                            ---- --- ---

I haven't received the "Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American
Intelligence Establishments" book by Mike Frost yet.

So for now I'll quote from his article in CAQ, an issue entitled "The New
Age of Surveillance".

Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1996-97, Number 59
1500 Massachusetts Ave. NW #732
Washington, DC 20005
202/331-