Are these two stories related? Associated Press reports on 1/20/95:

Hewlett-Packard Co. has been awarded a $672 million contact to build a computer system linking 20,000 terminals for the military, Sen. Bob Smith announced.

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From rsalz@osf.org Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 14:25:01 -0500 From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Cone of silence update

---------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 21:03:02 -0500 From: burton@het.brown.edu (Joshua W. Burton) To: silent-tristero@world.std.com Subject: Cone of silence update

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GOVERNMENT'S SECRETS FLOW THROUGH AN INTERNET CLONE

WASHINGTON - When the US intelligence community recently decided to modernize the way it communicates, it did what countless other government agencies, businesses and individuals have done over the last few years: it turned to the Internet.

But the regular Internet wouldn't do. For spies and other government officials concerned about secrecy, that very public, very uncontrollable global mesh of computer networks was too risky a place to do business.

So the intelligence community created its own Internet.

Dubbed Intelink and based on the same technology used to run and navigate the original Internet, this new network for sharing supersecret information---including satellite imagery and video footage---officially began operating just a few weeks ago.

When the bugs are worked out and a final system is in place, it will allow analysts, policy-makers, military officials and soldiers in the field to tap quickly and directly into classified information at the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon and diverse other parts of the national security bureaucracy.

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