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NSA's First Director: "I Was the Only Red Pencil."

Matthew Phelan · 07/03/14 12:59PM

Two internal NSA oral histories — one formerly classified Top Secret, another merely "For Official Use Only" — surfaced yesterday on secrets-spilling site Cryptome. And, so far, they are a delightful trove of spooktacular managerial affectations and clandestine bureaucratic in-fighting.