(fwd) Re: NSA Helped Yeltsin Foil 1991 Coup
Jim Miller
jim at bilbo.suite.com
Fri May 27 12:22:50 PDT 1994
: 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 at suite.com
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