A declassified NSA document reveals that the Agency spied on communications of Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald and MLK.
During the middle of the protest against the Viet Nam war, NSA has done some spying activities. Some classified NSA documents have been show this Wednesday declassified as they revealed that the NSA agents tapped communications overseas who were current among some critics of the war. The names include Muhammad Ali, Senator Frank Church and Martin Luther King Jr. It also includes the name of the Washington Post humor columnist i.e. Art Buchwald.
During the middle of the protest against the Viet Nam war, NSA has done some spying activities. Some of the declassified NSA classified documents as they were revealed Wednesday show that officials of the NSA on interception of communications that were underway overseas between critics of the war. The names include Muhammad Ali, Senator Frank Church and Martin Luther King Jr. It also includes the name of the Washington Post humor columnist i.e. Art Buchwald
According to the documents, Howard Baker, another Senator, who was among the supporter of the war was also included in the list of targets to be subjected to monitoring. Surveillance includes communications overseas through telephone calls, traffic of cable and telex. The list, which includes almost 1600 names remained active in the period from 1967 to 1973.
Is no hidden fact that the Government was spying on the obvious war protesters and proponents of civil rights since the 1960s and 1970s. However, this last revelation of the secret history of the NSA, which has been released by the national security Archives has opened new chapters of NSA respect the communications of Americans. Well it really happened for some time.
Is no hidden fact that the Government was spying on the obvious war protesters and proponents of civil rights since the 1960s and 1970s. However, this last revelation of the secret history of the NSA, which has been released by the national security Archives has opened new chapters of NSA respect the communications of Americans. Well it really happened for some time.
The country burned in flames in 1967 as written in the notes of the internal history of the NSA. Johnson was taking steps to make sure if the nationwide protest that raged against the war was financed by an external force. The army and the CIA initially showed concerns about reservations expressed by the President and the FBI has prepared a list of names for this purpose. Listen job has been given to the NSA and he nicknamed the Minaret of the program in 1969.
Documents that have been revealed this Wednesday gave 7 names that includes Larry King and his compatriot Whitney Young who was a civil rights leader, Muhammad Ali, boxing legislators Baker champion and the Church, a columnist for the New York Times Tom Wicker and Buchwald.
Matthew M. Aid, who is a historian of the analyst and deals with the study of the history of NSA intelligence has said that "it has no knowledge on why Artie Buchwald and Tom Wicker were there in the list."
According to documents, counsel of the NSA, who later went on to examine the program says that people who have been involved in the list appear to have an idea that the program was disreputable.
According to William Burr and aid, Buchwald, at that time wrote some very scathing columns in the Viet Nam war-related. One of the columns by Buchwald suggested it had cost about 332,000 US dollars for killing a single soldier. He argued in the column that he would have been less expensive and effective if the Government would have offered Cong defectors, a House with a value of $ 25000, a television and education of children.
The aid is of the column was not sufficient to give NSA the right to Buchwald on the list.
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