Think It All Started with Phones and Email? The NSA Used to Copy Our Telegrams

In the mid-1960s, there was a photocopying machine in the operations room of Western Union International in New York. Whenever a foreign government sent a cable via the company’s facilities, the Western Union operator would copy it on the machine.

That machine belonged not to Western Union International, but to the National Security Agency. It gave the NSA access to cables in which embassies communicated with their countries and to messages from nations giving instructions to their legations in the United States.

Once a week, an NSA employee came to the office and serviced the machine. He removed its film roll and replaced it with a fresh one.

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