From: Brian D Williams Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 14:28:12 -0700 "According to sources at the National Security Agency, on the morning of July 13, 1982, the NSA had intercepted commercial communications from the Washington office of Mitsubishi to the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo. The NSA monitors fifty-three thousand communication signals in the United States every day. They I haven't had a chance to read the book, but is this referring to the *supposed* "project harvest"? (a supposed NSA project to automate the wiretapping and flagging of phone conversations by voice-recognition software (ie key words trigger conversations being bumped to human listeners.)) usually aren't reviewed by analysts, however, unless the signal carries a message with a signature-a key word or phrase that triggers a computer to transcribe the communication. Any word that might signal confidential or classified government information triggers the transcribing system." from Friendly spies, page 90. looks like a smoking gun to me...... (for all I know this is mere paranoia (the "project harvest") so no flames about the obvious "fringe factor" involved here. Just wanting to know if the book "Friendly Spies" (unavailable in my university library as of yet) mentions this.) -Sam