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<p align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="5">Secret Spy Agency</font><br>
<font face="Verdana" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:8pt;">A
few miles out of Washington lies an inconspicuous military installation.
On most maps it does not exist. And yet it contains the largest
mass of secrets in the world.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><br> It
is home to the National Security Agency (NSA), the least visible
but most powerful spy agency in America's armoury. In the enormous
post-mortem exercise over what went wrong in the run-up to 11
September, all the criticism has been directed at the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
which is how the US Government wants it. The less attention
the NSA gets the better - the joke is that its initials stand
for No Such Agency - and yet somewhere hidden in its massive
computers there are almost certainly enough vital clues to have
prevented the 11 September attacks, had anyone known where to
look.</span></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><u>Secret
world</u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> The
NSA's job is to eavesdrop on the world's phone calls and emails,
but do not try to phone them. The NSA website does not list
a phone number. You do not contact them. They listen to you.
You are not allowed to take any pictures of the base. Your only
option is to order a video which they shot themselves.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> Though
invisible on the map, 38,000 people work at the agency
every day, more then the CIA and FBI put together - every one
of them sworn to a lifetime of secrecy. They have their own
police force, shopping malls and sports complexes - and their
own television network. On one channel you can watch live video
from unmanned planes flying over Afghanistan or surf through
satellite photos of Pakistan troop movements on the Kashmir
border. On their secure internet, which they share with the
CIA and FBI, you can read transcripts of intercepted conversations
between soldiers on exercise in China, or European diplomats.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> When
Osama bin Laden first moved to Afganistan, the NSA listened
in to every phone call he made on his satellite phone. Over
the course of two years it is believed they logged more than
2,000 minutes of conversation. It all ended when President Clinton
ordered the cruise missile strike on his training camp in 1998.
Bin Laden narrowly escaped with his life. He realised that the
NSA was listening in and ditched his satellite phone,and ordered
his aides never to talk on the phone again about operations.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> This
shows the limitations of the NSA's incredible technology. Journalists
cannot resist endowing spy agencies with supernatural capabilities
and power. In fact their failings are all too human. September
11 is a perfect example of this. Nineteen men armed only with
knives and their fanaticism successfully hatched a plot totally
unnoticed by America's $40bn a year intelligence-gathering machine.
They succeeded because they lived and worked, not in the shadows
where spies operate, but in full view. In fact, one of the most
bizzarre ironies of all this is that five of the hijackers lived
in a motel right outside the gates of the NSA.</span></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Verdana" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><u><img src="exwtc.jpg" width="180" height="190" border="0"></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana" color="#666666"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><u>500
million hours a day</u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The NSA
was created after World War II to stop another surprise attack
like Pearl Harbor by providing early warning. But in the hour
when the need was greatest, it failed the country. And it failed
not because it did not have enough information, but because
it had too much.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> According
to author James Bamford, who has studied the NSA for years,
each one of their dozen largest listening posts around the world
picks up more than two million communications an hour - cell
phones. diplomatic traffic, emails, faxes. That works out at
500 million hours every day. When you think that this has to
be translated from a myriad of languages and then analysed,
you realise that the NSA looks less like an omniscient being
than a man wading through a warehouse of words in search of
a few tiny diamonds.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:8pt;">P°evzato
z BBC a LN stránku p°ipravil Soske</span></font></p>
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