"According to sources at the National Security Agency, on the morning of July 13, 1982, the NSA had intercepted commercial communications from the Washington office of Mitsubishi to the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo. The NSA monitors fifty-three thousand communication signals in the United States every day. They usually aren't reviewed by analysts, however, unless the signal carries a message with a signature-a key word or phrase that triggers a computer to transcribe the communication. Any word that might signal confidential or classified government information triggers the transcribing system." from Friendly spies, page 90. looks like a smoking gun to me...... Brian Williams Cypherpatriot