>>The 1/24/94 Washington Post announced the opening of the NSA crypto
>>museum. The Post said it had actually been open to the public for a
It gets better -- and connects to an earlier thread on MUSEUM-L on the
relative value of reproductions: from today's Washington Post (25 January
1994, C3 (Style Section)):
In an article on the front page of The Post yesterday, the National
Security Agency museum was described as displaying the carved wooden
U.S. seal that had been presented to Averell Harriman when he was
ambassador in Moscow, and that turned out to have a microphone hidden
inside it. The State Department called yesterday to complain that the
original seal actually hangs in the Diplomatic Security Service
office, and that the NSA's version is a copy. Responded Earl J.
Coates, curator of the super-secret agency's museum: "That might be
true. We'll let them keep guessing.
Mario Rups
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