Part 133 (2/2)

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I'M IMPRESSED YOU ARE THE FIRST REPORTER I'VE HEARD OF TO USE COMPUTERS AS A SOURCE WHO DEVELOPED THE RULES?

The lawyers, who else?

FIGURES

So Do we have a deal?

LET ME SEE THE CONTRACT

Scott and the Spook exchanged notes over their modems and comput- ers until they arrived at terins had established were clear, easy to follow and fair Scott set his computer to Save the conversa- tion

This is Scott Mason, speaking to a person who identifies himself only as the Spook I do not know the sex of this person, nor his appearance as all conversations are occurring over computer modehstory

Spook Why did you call me?

I DESIGNED THE COMPUTER INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES FOR TAKI homoSOTO WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW I DID IT?

Wednesday, January 20 National Security Agency

Marvin Jacobs had a busy day and evening And night, preparing for hiswith the President He would have a chance to make his point, and win it, with an audience in attendance The high level bureaucrat craved to aspire within the echelons of the governoals fro Korea Lt Marvin Jacobs served his country as 90 day wonder straight out of ROTC A business major with a minor in civic administration did not prepare hience was in desperate need of quality analysts, people with ence Division G-2 personnel staff poured through new recruit files in hopes of recruiting theraence,' a contradiction in terms' made their job doubly difficult So they resorted to other tactics to recruit quali- fied people for an unpopular and often despised branch of the military: they made deals, and theyCaptain Jacobs returned to the United States at the end of the conflict as a highly skilled and experienced coy; as antiquated as it appears today His abilities idely needed by eovernment as McCarthyism and the fear of the Red Menace were substituted for Hot War

The super secret NSA, whose existence was unknown to a vast ress at that tiencies The payscales were the sa conditions proency

Marvin Jacobs had studied to serve as a civil servant, but he ian politics, not confronting the Communist Threat

He was rewarded for his efforts, handso bonus In the deep dark untrace- able world of the National Security Agency they call it All Paid Reconnaissance APR, for short Travel when and where you like, ostensibly on behalf of your government If worse comes to worst, attend a half day seminar and make yourself seen

By the time he was thirty-five, Marvin Jacobs, noell re- spected ement fixture at the NSA, had seen the world twice over Occasionally he traveled on business For the first ten years with the Agency he traveled with his wife, college sweet- heart Sarah Bell, and then less so as their three children h he now travels alonesomewhere at least twice a month, if only for a weekend

The Directorshi+p of the NSA landed in his lap unexpectedly in 1985, when the schison and the Fort becahtmare for his predecessor Marvin Jacobs, on the other hand, found the job the deserved cherry on a career dedicated to his country It was largely a political job, and e secret ee, the power, the control and the responsibility alone wasn't enough for Marvin Jacobs He wanted erous coood to hear your voice, Ahmed Shah,” Beni Rafjani said in Farsi over an open clear overseas line

”And you I ahtly as he spoke

”As we all are But today I call to say you can come home”

”Home? Iran?” The excitement in Ahmed's voice was ht you would be pleased, now that the Red Sun has set”

The cryptic reference to the death of ho, but inuendo was non-admissible

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