interesting quote, Baltimore Sun 8/21

Page 7A of today's _Baltimore Sun_ features an op-ed piece by Carl R. Eisendrath, "a former U.S. foreign-service officer", entitled "Bringing Light to Covert Operations", which cites an interesting quotation: "In the period between the two world wars, Secretary of War Henry Stimson closed the cryptography section of the State Department because, as he reputedly said, "Gentlemen don't read each other's mail." -Tom Swiss / tms@tis.com