We offer a report on NSA's "Soft Landing" program for placing ex-NSA employees in private industry by offering inducements to contractors: http://jya.com/nsa-softcost.htm Excerpt: A novel partnership between the National Security Agency and industry has helped NSA meet mandated reductions in personnel levels while at the same time allowing the agency to refresh its workforce with technically skilled people. Dubbed "Soft Landing," the program encourages more senior, and often highly paid, support staff to take jobs in the private sector, thereby creating openings the agency can fill with the young computer scientists, mathematicians and engineers it needs to fulfill its code-making and code-breaking duties. Additionally, NSA has saved roughly $25 million through the effort, which was implemented two years ago but has received no publicity. While the Soft Landing program has received high-praise from government officials as well as industry representatives, some public interest advocates have questioned the effort, saying it has perhaps created an improper relationship between the secretive NSA and a select group of contractors. End excerpt. Wayne Madsen says the program is a means to plant sympathetic employees to sway industry NSA's way. The file includes a second report on NSA's accounting problems.