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Re: [ARSCLIST] Triggering memories of the so-called "computer" tape of days gone by
Jack Raymond wrote:
Rob Bamberger wrote:
As one who used to buy a couple hundred reels at a time of used,
unboxed open-reel tape that reportedly had been used by the Federal
Government, I thought some members of the list might be interested in
a GAO submission to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs. The topic is: "Sale of Magnetic Data Tapes
Previously Used by the Government Presents a Low Security Risk"
Back in the 1960s while living in Washington DC I bought a dozen boxes
of used tape from a classified ad in the Washington Post and found, to
my surprise, that one of them still had audio content. What's more, it
recorded the debriefing in Vienna of a man who had just come back from a
mission behind the Iron Curtain. Needless to say I contacted the
government and FBI agents were quick to respond. They took all 12 boxes
of tape and gave me new tape as replacement. A short time later someone
surreptiously entered my apartment but apparently took nothing, and I've
often wondered if the two events were somehow linked.
-- Jack Raymond
You didn't find 18 minutes missing from any of your tapes?
Presume you weren't living in the Watergate Apartments.
OK, that's all I have for spook jokes at this point, just the obvious ones.
dl