What's in a name

The NSA seems to be worried anyway (skip to the leaked letter, to literally 'employees and family of NSA', at the bottom of this article):

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/09/19/nsa-sends-letter-to-its-extended...

I don't know if it is just me but the name of one of the writers of that letter reminds me of a movie character played by a certain mr Atkinson who unfoils a plot involved in turning the UK into a nation wide prison camp. But what's in a name.