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To: Perdogg

The NSA frequently came to our campus to recruit in the 1980’s. It was the general consensus that they had access to everybody’s phone calls, and could pretty much eavesdrop on us at-will.

The usual story was that we let the Brits spy on our people domestically, while we did the same to Her Majesty’s Subjects. Then we’d just exchange the intel.


6 posted on 06/07/2013 6:02:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The usual story was that we let the Brits spy on our people domestically, while we did the same to Her Majesty’s Subjects. Then we’d just exchange the intel.

Yes - I mentioned on a different thread the other day that I'd parused a book called "Those Angry Days" about the fight between FDR and America First (focusing on Charles Lindbergh) prior to Pearl Harbor. Part of it dealt with FDR ok'ing the Brits spying on Americans here in the US ...
10 posted on 06/07/2013 6:08:36 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The usual story was that we let the Brits spy on our people domestically, while we did the same to Her Majesty’s Subjects. Then we’d just exchange the intel.”

That was not just the usual story. It has been reality since about 1947 and probably before then.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3028428/posts?page=22#22


23 posted on 06/07/2013 9:01:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ('How empty and dead' were they to let Chris Stevens, one of them , die for 'Obama-Clinton fiction?')
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