10-19-96. WaPo: "Story of How an Unknown American Linguist Broke Soviet Wartime Spy Code Finally Emerges From Shadows" NSA's legendary cryptlinguist Meredith Knox Gardner emerged from a lifetime of anonymity to tell his story at a conference devoted to the "Venona" code break. NSA historians have been unable to come up with any evidence that President Truman was ever informed of Venona. Mystery also continues to surround the government's failure to prosecute Theodore Alvin Hall, a Harvard physicist working at Los Alamos and Bill Weisband, a Soviet emigre working with Gardner at NSA, even though Venona decrypts revealed the two as spies. Gardner believes that the intelligence chiefs withheld the information from Truman because they were afraid that he would "give away the secret. You can't imagine how the intelligence agencies guard secrecy." ----- http://jya.com/juntas.txt (20 kb) ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/juntas.txt JUN_tas