> Also the article says that the NSA didn't trust the CIA or State Department to handle the investigation properly, which was very interesting to read. Had the NSA already been established as a "we do tech better" agency?
NSA may have been influenced by Angleton's belief that there was a mole (don't know if he was a "stopped clock" since Aldritch Ames didn't start leaking until the 1980s ARAIK).
The more likely explanation is the simple "we learnt of the leak, we developed a remedy, we should just keep the need-to-know circle as small as possible". Once you need to liase with someone else there are meetings, counterparts, assistants, etc...
NSA may have been influenced by Angleton's belief that there was a mole (don't know if he was a "stopped clock" since Aldritch Ames didn't start leaking until the 1980s ARAIK).
The more likely explanation is the simple "we learnt of the leak, we developed a remedy, we should just keep the need-to-know circle as small as possible". Once you need to liase with someone else there are meetings, counterparts, assistants, etc...