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Old September 18th 09, 05:11 PM posted to sci.space.history
Derek Lyons
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Default Another tale of Lost Apollo footage...

Rick Jones wrote:

Eric Chomko wrote:
Reminds me of the time my father was chief interpreter of the
Washington-Moscow Hotline back in the late 60s. We'd get test
messages for the Soviets every hour from teletypes. When asked what
they did with the message printouts I was told that they were
routinely destroyed. Can you imagine how valuable they be right
now?


Unless these test messages were off-the-cuff from the operators at the
other end of the line, I would expect they would have been rather dry
and historically uninteresting.


Not to mention that one of the cardinal sins of cryptographic security
is to keep exact textual copies of once encrypted messages hanging
around.

Why aren't they in the National Archives for all to see?!
"Routinely destroyed", for what? Still makes me wonder how far we
have come as a "free country".


Perhaps the Soviets requested their destruction? Perhaps someone made
a judgement call on reams and reams of paper storage cost vs
then-perceived value.


Yep.

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