One of the earliest reports on NSA's global electronic interception program appeared in Ramparts magazine in 1972, which published a lengthy interview with a young former NSA analyst, "U.S. Electronic Espionage: A Memoir": http://jya.com/nsa-elint.htm (84K) James Bamford, Duncan Campbell, Nicky Hager and others have since confirmed what the analyst revealed then and greatly extended what was at the time doubted as a young man's anti-war exaggeration. NSA, according to Bamford, decided to not prosecute in the hope that no one would believe such astonishing claims of electronic violation of friends and foes. See The Puzzle Palace, p. 334 (paper editon). Bamford says Perry Fellwock was the name of the anonymous analyst, first called Winslow Peck, a pseudonym. Would anyone happen to know where Fellwock is these days? That's on the assumption that Fellwock is not a deeper pseudo than Peck. What knocked me over was Fellwock saying that the location of the NSA training school was at Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas, from whence this counterspy originates. We were told the base was mothballed, kept pickled only for local pork. No doubt, NSA was never there, and "Fellwock" was just continuing to do his disinfo job via Ramparts.
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John Young