Seymour M. Hersh, writing in the November 1, 1993 _New Yorker_, comments: "...current and former high-ranking officials with access to intelligence, whose information has been extremely reliable in the past, specifically told me that the National Security Agency, which is responsible for electronic intelligence, had produced no significant high-level intercepts from Iraq in years. American intellignece experts have concluded that the Reagan Adminstration's policy of providing satellite and communications intelligence to Iraq in the mid-nineteen-eighties had an unwelcome side effect: the Iraqi intelligence service learned how to hide its important communications from the N.S.A.'s many sensors." I am posting this to help provide an insight into some of NSA's motivations. If you think this is disinformation, consider the motives for creating it -- the insights are similar. -a2