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THEN vs NOW: How Being an IA Has Changed In the Past (Almost) Half Century

SUMMARY

An analyst nicknamed "Frenchie" looks back at 48 years in the service. Work was initially boring, tracking radio signals in “small prefabricated buildings”, but when the Soviets upped their Signals game with Morse, fax and data transmissions, things got fun. Nowadays stress, he notes, comes from “using my eyes to look at hundreds of search results each day."

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Jul 07, 2006

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

May 29, 2019