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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. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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