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- From: jac54@cas.org ()
- Subject: Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.104951.3571@cas.org>
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- Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
- References: <1zhng-h.strnlght@netcom.com> <1992Sep1.194851.2062@bcars64a.bnr.ca> <1992Sep1.212509.28555@decuac.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:49:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.212509.28555@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
- >>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.
- >
- Yes, but the story about the air-conditioning at Langley is true.
- The contractor wasn't given enough information to do anything other
- than guess what the requirements were. I have it on good
- authority that you can't tell the difference between the inside
- and the outside, summer or winter.
-
- Alec.
-