At 02:08 PM 1/23/96 -0600, Rick Smith wrote:
...listening for Kissinger..
Don't tell me, let me guess: 20 years ago, if you had told anyone about this project, you would have had to kill them. Now, 20 years later, after a few levels of re-classifications and de-classifications, all you have to do is to sneer in our general direction. <G>
Not. It wasn't a classified project. It was upstairs from Woolworth's in Central Square, ferheavens sake. SCIFs would have annoyed the landlord, and presented interesting "challenges" given the pasteboard construction. We didn't even have any of those clunky file cabinets for Keeping Secrets Safe. We just amused ourselves with such speculation, since this was clearly a technology that excited interest in certain quarters. Rick.
I heard vague rumors of such capabilities about 20 years ago. At the time, I had no reason to make overseas telephone calls, but if I did I would have interspersed the friendly conversation with terms like "Plutonium...Khadafi...Khomeini...football...uranium..."