[14301] in Cypherpunks
Re: (fwd) Re: NSA Helped Yeltsin Foil 1991 Coup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Miller)
Fri May 27 15:27:02 1994
From: jim@bilbo.suite.com (Jim Miller)
Date: Fri, 27 May 94 14:19:55 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Jim_Miller@bilbo.suite.com
: 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@suite.com
