Government fear of strong crypto

Brad Huntting huntting at glarp.com
Thu Jun 24 19:51:25 PDT 1993



> According to the Bill of Rights Foundation Booklet "CIA OFF CAMPUS"
> Ex-President Reagan signed in 1981 Executive order # 12333 Which
> permits the CIA to operate domestically against US citizens if
> it is believed that said citizen is either an agent of a foreign power
> or acting on behalf of same.

I seem to remember that at about this time, the entire inteligence
community (part or all of the NSA, DEA, DOE, DOJ, CIA, DOD, and
the Treasury Dept) was reorganized and placed under something called
just "Central Inteligence" (CI).

Or is this just mistacken beurocratic trivia?


brad






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