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14 I) TIIUHSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, IMS MUJFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDKOKD. OKEUON AAodermi U.S. Spies IHIighly Trained Proifessioraal AAem By ROBERT BUCKHORN United Press International ; WASHINGTON (UPI)-There was a time when all a man needed to get into the spy game was a hollowed - out bootheel and the nerve of a door-to-door salesman. . But the cold war is producing a new breed ol cloak-and-dag ger man one who puts his faith in a slide rule, a high speed digital computer and a guaranteed government pen sion In the United States, the fin ishing school for these "egg head spies is the National Se curity Agency (NSA), a super secret organization tucked away on a nearly 1,000-acre slice of Ft. Meade, Md., some 20 miles from Washington. . Inside the walls of a huge, well-guarded building, is one of the best collections of engi neers, physicists and mathema ticians the government can muster. ' How many there are, what they do, and how they do it is a government secret. For the record' officials usually admit only that the agency is under the Defense Department; that its boss is Air Force M. Gen. Gordon A. Blake, and its proj ects are top secret, Others put it more vividly: I tiey describe NtA s job as se cret code making-and-breaking along with the development and use of radar and radio inter cept equipment. In short, elec tronic espionage. Ungentlemanly Occupation It was not so long ago that this sort of work was consid ered to be an ungentlemanly peacetime occupation. In 1925, incoming Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg was amazed to learn the State Department had a code-breaking section. He promptly closed down the so-called "black chamber" and found new jobs for its staff. But things are different in the era of the cold war. To work its "seldom seen array of in strumentation" and to read and write obscure languages, NSA goes to the college campus for its manpower. Despite a distinct competitive disadvantage in trying to match industry offered salaries, NSA makes no attempt to play up the glamorous angle of its Job. Instead, a would-be counter Intelligence agent is offered Ci vil Service protection, low cost insurance, liberal vacations and employment in a building equipped with "three banks of escalators, nine snack bars, and a modern cafeteria." Despite its fetish for secrecy, most of what the public knows about NSA came from the un reliable mouths of two code clerks who defected to Russia in August of 1960. j They were William n. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, admit ted Communist sympathizers and accused sexual deviates. Gave Their Version In a Russian-staged propa ganda show, Martin and Mitch ell held a news conference in Moscow and gave the world their version of what NSA does. According to them, the Unit ed States deliberately sends planes along Russia's borders to trigger radar devices. While the Russians are monitoring the planes, American - controlled ground stations tune in on their frequencies. The information collected by the ground stations is then sent to NSA where analyists break the communica tions code system used by the Russians, the two defectors said. According to them, this court' try reads the coded messages of more than 40 nations. When Mitchell and Martin chose the way of the turncoat, NSA got what it wants least-publicity. In Congress two investiga tions were opened, one by a House armed services subcom mittee and another by the Com' mittee on Un-American Activi ties. However' the lawmakers ad mitted that NSA's function was "so highly classified" that they did not attempt to "learn tne products of this agency." in cum wnrk at NSA is un-1 wants to answer his wife when doubtedly vital and unique, but she asks: "And what did you it is not a place for a man who I do at the office today, dearV."t Financing, Insurance for Cars As Gifts Should Be Checked This Christmas, our Collector's Item cele brates the timeless spirit of Hojager Wind mill. The artist captures the story-book romance of the windmill, beloved in Danish folk tales. The Christmas plate has been pro duced every year since 1908 in limited editions. Traditional: blue and white Royal Copenhagen Porcelain. Pierced for hang ing. $11.00. at Trowbridge Electric, W. Main at Fir . Use Our Customer Parking Area CPISTJiHL house COLLECTION Imported Gifts from Denmark, Mexico, Portugal and the Far East. Is there a new automobile in your Christmas-gift picture this year.' If so, you will probably visit several automobile showrooms, searching for the best deal on a new car. But just as you com pare car prices, you should also compare financing and insur ance costs. It is possible to save on a pur chase simply by careful atten tion to insurance and finance often be determined solely by the lending agent. In a recent nine-city survey by the University of Chicago on Dr. Waskow To Talk At Southern Oregon ASHLAND - Dr. Arthur I. Waskow, senior staff member nf th. TJ 13 L. 1 fnr Rial. Farm lh rnnntrv',: ?"gagcd in the Study for State Farm, the country's SgCn, i","16 Sludy ?f prob biggest auto insurer. ms of defense and d.sarma- 00 ment. Will snpak at Southern Oregon College at 11 a.m. Dec. 3 in Churchill Auditorum. Check Financing First, financing should be checked. Because seven out of ten people borrow money for car purchases, it is likely that you will be making some financ ing arrangements. Since it costs money to borrow, an interest rate or finance charge is added to the borrowed sum. The interest on borrowed funds is determined by such fac tors as the type of institution lending the money, borrower's credit rating, amount being bor rowed and length of time for re payment. Interest rates are reg ulated by law. A finance charge, on the other hand, is sometimes not regulat ed by law and is the amount of money added to the price of an item when the item is bought on time payments. Therefore, the I amount of a finance charge can Dr. Waskow is the author of "The Limits of Defense" and "The Worried Man's Guide To World Peace," a handbook on peace action which is in the process of being published. He has also written. many articles on problems of military strategy, civil aetense, disarmament and racial conflict in such maga zines as Scientific American, At lantic Monthly, New Republic, and Saturday Review. He received his bachelor's degree at John Hopkins Uni versity and his doctorate in American history at the. Uni versity of Wisconsin. For two years he was a legislative as sistant to a United States congressman. The public is invited to attend the lecture without charge. comparative finance . costs,' it was shown that, in New York City many buyers achieved sav ings of between $36 and $86; on the $2,000.00 financing of a new car merely by shopping for Insurance Coverage Insurance coverage is the next item on the car-buyer's list. since insurance costs vary, com paring them is a good idea. A Lousiana man discovered that collision insurance and credit life insurance (which pays the balance of a loan in case the buyer dies) would cost him $520.00 from one source. He then visited an insurance agent who was able to arrange a loan-through a local bank at low bank rates. The bank turn ished credit life insurance with out charge. Still further savings were achieved on the car insup ance. 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