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1-25-96. TWPsst:

   "Military Men Named to Top Intelligence Posts."

      AF Gen. Kenneth Minihan to run all US eavesdropping on
      foreign governments and citizens at NSA, which is
      responsible for providing US officials with a steady
      stream of intercepted electronic data on foreign weapons
      and conversations involving foreign politicians. The
      NSA's eavesdropping costs an estimated $3.5 billion a
      year, a large portion of which supports its computer
      operations at Fort Meade and its world-class experts in
      mathematics.

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On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, John Young wrote:
> 
>    "Military Men Named to Top Intelligence Posts."
> 
>       AF Gen. Kenneth Minihan to run all US eavesdropping on
>       foreign governments and citizens at NSA, which is

Here's an embarassing question to show my ignorance - I thought the NSA 
was a Military organisation. Is it under the Pentagon, State, or is it a 
separate part of the executive?