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Deceit of an Ally, Part 3

B R U C E  B R I L L | I ended the previous installment by raising some burning questions that still need to be answered. All of these questions came to a head as I approached the end of my tour of duty as a Middle East intelligence analyst for NSA, the U.S. National Security Agency. I was still at my permanent assignment at Fort Meade, Maryland, when I, finally, received my honorable discharge.

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Deceit of an Ally, Part 2

B R U C E  B R I L L | In my role at the NSA as a linguist and military analyst in the early 1970s, I was given information, two days before it happened, that — for a certainty – Syria and Egypt were going to invade Israel on October 6, 1973 – Yom Kippur. Therefore, I was astonished to learn that, when the Yom Kippur War broke out, the Israelis were caught with their pants completely down. The critical intelligence I had been informed about should have been passed on to our ally, Israel; but it was not.

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Deceit of an Ally, Part 1

B R U C E  B R I L L | The interrogator said, “You’re having a problem with that one.” I was. I don’t know what exactly the needles on the lie detector told the interrogator, but the machine had clearly caught me in a lie. I was an American soldier working as a Middle East intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland, and I was being interrogated by an NSA security officer.