: It describes how Bush passed on transcripts of encrypted conversations : between the leaders of 1991's failed Soviet coup to Boris Yeltsin. : "As soon as the coup started on 18 August, 1991, the NSA, : America's largest intelligence organization was able to decrypt : conversations between the coup's two leaders, Vladimir Kryuchkov, How does the author of the article know that the NSA *decrypted* the conversations? For all we know, the NSA learned of the coup from stratigically placed bugs or other mundane technology. Jim_Miller@suite.com