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This is certainly greater than
the number of C.I.A. employees in Washington, estimated at about
10,000, and even when the uncertain numbers of employees of both
agencies in posts around the world are added to their totals, N.S.A. is
still larger than C.I.A., making it almost certainly the largest intelligence
agency in the free world. (At least a thousand N.S.A. employees are
stationed overseas. Several hundred work in each of two branches,
N.S.A. Far East in lapan and N.S.A. Europe in Germany. Others serve
with N.S.A.'s worldwide intercept net, a few as radio operators, most as
supervisors, since nearly all the intercept operators are armed forces
personnel.) N.S.A.'s budget has also been reported to be twice as large as
the C.I.A.'s.
N. S. A. 383
The presidential directive that created the National Security Agency
was and is classified as security information, and the veil thus thrown
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