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Project SHAMROCK. It ended in 1975 due to the scandals that came to light during Church committee hearings (and Watergate), hearings that resulted in things lik
by isleyaardvark 13y ago
Project SHAMROCK. It ended in 1975 due to the scandals that came to light during Church committee hearings (and Watergate), hearings that resulted in things like FISA and the Congressional select committees on intelligence oversight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK
- leephillips 13y agoI'm relying on my memory of the book from many years ago, and I don't have a copy any longer, but I think I recall that the telegraph eavesdropping began way before SHAMROCK, in the early days of the telegraph. In other words, as long as we have had electrical communications, our government has been listening in. Before that, of course, there was the post office....