At 01:01 PM 4/24/2001 -0700, I wrote:
>The Bamford interview is online at
><http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20010424.fa.01.ram> - not sure how long
>that URL will be good.
The interview is 42 minutes long - if you're busy and mostly interested in
current events, skip to about minute 30, where he starts discussing Echelon
(he describes it as "a big search engine"), drug intercepts (DEA pushes for
lots of intel, NSA doesn't like that), competitor intelligence (Airbus vs.
Boeing - he said NSA doesn't play that), personal privacy (says that it's
difficult for NSA to get its job done without violating people's privacy,
and that NSA's statutory duty to report crimes makes this harder), and
recently identified Russian double agent/FBI counterintel specialist Robert
Hanssen (a personal friend of Bamford's; Bamford doesn't dish dirt on
friends or sources, but was very surprised to hear of the arrest).
There's also a Flash-infected website at <http://www.bodyofsecrets.com>,
which has some reference and bibliographic detail.
--
Greg Broiles
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"Organized crime is the price we pay for organization." -- Raymond Chandler
