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communications. Around the globe they have spotted more than 2,000
intercept positions (one man listening at one radio set). Most are on U.S.
military bases overseas, but some are on planes or aboard ship. More
than 8,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen, accompanied and supervised by
N.S.A. personnel, type out on four-ply paper the Morse code messages
that peep incessantly in their earphones. Other personnel tend the
equipment that intercepts radioteletype messages and the tape-recorders
for voice communications. Still others forward the intercepts to Fort
Meade. Interception goes on around the clock, at every wavelength, for
every audible transmission, of every single country.
Not all the human communications that N.S.A. studies are coded. Into
the headquarters building at Fort Meade come recordings of the cleartext
chatter between Soviet pilots. An N.S.A. section transcribes these, not
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