Author: AnneAnne
Date: Jul 23, 2007 17:15
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Service has been crippled by budget cuts, sapped by the
# Militarization of intelligence. Diplomats, not spies, should be doing
# analysis of events in peaceful places.
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# The report, by 19 people from the worlds of espionage, diplomacy, the
# Military, academia and business, says American intelligence "still has
# not yet come in from the cold" and is "ill-prepared for the 21st Century."
The Cold War meant that not only were the government's SIGINT operations
to continue via the NSA, they were to grow and grow and grow. The threat
of Nuclear War is what spurred many decades of Cold War and SIGINT.
* "Time Details Eisenhower Plan for U.S. Under Atomic Attack"
* Reuters, The New York Times, August 3, 1992
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* A "Doomsday Plan" devised to rescue United States leaders from nuclear
* catastrophe included underground bunkers, secret rescue teams, and a
* vault full of cash.
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