07.11.2013 - 08:27 [ New York Times ]

National Security Agency Reported Eavesdropping On Most Private Cables; Pentagon Unit Is Said to Use Computers to Sort Out Intelligence Data From Messages Legality Is Debated Security Agency Reported To Eavesdrop on Cables

(30.08.1975) The National Security Agency eavesdrops on virtually all cable, Telex and other nontelephone communications leaving and entering the United States and uses computers to sort and obtain intelligence from the contents, sources familiar with the operations said today.