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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Subject: Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.212509.28555@decuac.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
- References: <1zhng-h.strnlght@netcom.com> <1992Sep1.194851.2062@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:25:09 GMT
- Lines: 13
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- >Then there's the famous story about the time they were building CIA
- >headquarters, and a local real estate developer wanted to know how
- >many employees would be housed there, so he could plan some residential
- >developments nearby. He was completely stonewalled, so he called the
- >Soviet Embassy and they told him. They had it just about dead on.
-
- This story made my brand new Capt. Kelly bullshit detector
- explode violently, and was only by sheerest luck that nobody was
- injured.
- I was going to say "it's an urban legend" but it's not even
- as believable as crocodiles in the sewers.
-
- mjr.
-