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IBM console operator, NSA, circa 1971
More NSA computing photos here:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezzyxj/a-photo-history-of-the-nsa-from-its-own-secret-archives
"To celebrate their 60th birthday, the NSA published an interactive timeline last year."
This photo would be in the days of No Such Agency, I'd think -
Bamford's _Puzzle Palace_ was 1982. This NPR transcript says "The existence of the multi-billion dollar agency had been a deep secret until it was unveiled in a Senate investigation in 1975"
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5176847
