Tuesday 4/21/98 9:32 AM J Orlin Grabbe John Young John Gilmore ABQ J 4/21/98 A6 U.S. Aided Communist Foe Pol Pot Richard Reeves LOS ANGELES - ... Even after he fell from national power, we helped supply and protect Pol Pot because the Khmer Rouge was tying down large number of occupying North Vietnamese troops. These are some of the names of the evil who were or still are paid friends: o Saddam Hussein, paid for making war on Iran. o Gulbuddin Hekmatry, who made his name throwing acid in the faces of female students in Kabul who dared to wear western dress, paid for making was against communists in Afghanistan. o The Taliban, the religious warriors we helped train to fight communists who are beating or killing those same women right now in Afghanistan. o Manuel Noriega, the soldier-thug we encouraged to overthrow elections in Panama because we did not like the results. o Mobuto Sese Seko, one Joseph Mobutu, our man in Zaire. o Jonas Savimbi, in constant war in Angola The list goes on. It has for a long time and will, even if communism is dead as a national security threat of the United States. In may of these cases our interest involved resources - oil, usually, ... Details of exactly how the US helped Saddam are coming out. http://jya.com/whpfiles.htm http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Let’s change to a more positive topic. Lively people. Scientific American, April 1998, 95, Spread Spectrum Radio ... The Improbable Inventor of Frequency-Hopping Radio She was gorgeous, glamorous and talented. And she had a mind for technology. In 1941 actress Hedy Lamarr, along with the avant-garde composer and musician George Anthiel filed for a patent to cover their “Secret Communication System,” a device designed to help the U.S. military jump from one frequency to another, thus making enemy interception and jamming difficult. Born Hedwig Maria Eva Kiesler in Vienna, Austria, Lamarr may have gotten the idea of “frequency hopping” while she was married to Fritz Mandl, an armament manufacturer who sold munitions of Adolph Hitler. Through a marriage arranged by her parents, Lamarr was Mandl’s trophy wife, and she accompanied him to the many business dinners and meetings, where unbeknownst to the participants, she silently learned about Axis war technology. After four years with Mandl, Lamarr, a staunch anti-Nazi, fled to London, where MGM’s Louis B. Mayer “discovered” her and convinced her to move to the U.S. In Hollywood she me Antheil, who helped her figure out a way to synchronize the frequency hopping between the radio transmitter and receiver. Their invention, which they gave to the U.S. government for free, called for two paper rolls, similar to those used in player pianos, punched with an identical pattern of random holes. One of the rolls would control the transmitter on the submarine which the other would be launched with the receiver on the torpedo. Though ingenious, the device was deemed too cumbersome for use in World War II. Still, the seminal idea of frequency hopping lingered. By the late 1950s U.S. Navy contractors were able to take advantage of early computer processors for controlling and synchronizing the hopping sequence. Since then, the U.S. military has deployed more sophisticated techniques with even faster processors in costly, classified devices, including satellite communications systems. And today. And today the technology has become widespread in cell phones and in personal communications (PCS), among other civilian applications. - D.R.H. HEDY LAMARR, the Hollywood actress, was the co-receipient of a patent (inset) for basic technology that is now widely used in cell phones and personal communications services(PCS). US News & World Report, April 20, 1998 page 16 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Saying she’s been “humiliated and embarrassed ... has suffered mental pain and anguish,” the sultry 1940s screen star Hedy Lamarr, 84, has filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified damages from the Corel Corp., a Canadian software maker. The case, now in U.S. District Court, claims Corel used her image with authorization. My impression is that NSA attempted de-emphasize the most important PRACTICAL technology for spread spectrum frequency-hopping an ciphering/authentication: shift register sequence [Galois fields, mod 2]. But this is not working largely because of Internet http://www.semionoff.com/cellular/hacking/phreaking/ NSA, a user of Forth, also tried to do hide threaded code technology. This isn't working for NSA either. Let's hope for settlement so that we can get on to more, if I can even imagine such, projects. Later bill