Re: IEEE Spectrum: The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy???s Typewriters

On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 01:10:12PM -0500, Aram Perez via cryptography wrote:
> The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy???s Typewriters
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There's a fascinating (now-declassified) NSA history of this project,

  Sharon A. Maneki
  "Learning from the Enemy: The GUNMAN Project"
  Center for Cryptologic History
  National Security Agency
  2012

Your favorite search engine should find the pdf online at the NSA website,
as well as cached copies at various sites.

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