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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (219937)9/16/2007 5:15:16 PM
From: robert a belfer  Read Replies (1) of 793743
 
<At least that was what it was like in ASW.

Tom Clancy came out with Hunt for Red October while I was stationed at the Aswoc in Brunswick Me. Secrecy was so ingrained about things like SOSUS, even though it was probably well known in the USSR, I thought some of those guys were going to have an anxiety attacks while they were reading it....>

For some reason I still remember part of my first security brief before I went to gram school. The gist of it was that a weekly news magazine had puplished classified info about your line of work. We were told that even though it was available in the public library 'they' still had to expend resources to verify the accuracy of the article and were warned not to become one of those independant sources.
I never knew, but always suspected some of the bar flys striking up conversations were NIS making sure we didn't.
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