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Secretive U.S. Trade Group Does Who Knows What

Alec Klein writes in The Washington Post:

Enter a nondescript building in Ballston [Arlington, Virginia], take the escalator to the second floor, and make a sharp right. There, next to a MyEyeDr. shop, is Room 205, with little to hint that it's a gathering place for spies and their business associates. There is, though, a locked door: You have to be buzzed in to enter the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.

The group, a nonprofit professional association for members of the intelligence community -- including private contractors, academics and members of U.S. spy agencies -- is largely unknown. That's quite a feat, because its chairman, retired Navy Vice Adm. John M. McConnell, the former head of the National Security Agency, left recently to be sworn in as director of national intelligence, the president's top intelligence adviser. (A new chairman for the professional association is expected to be selected soon.)

posted by Fergie @ 4/01/2007 09:09:00 PM