just mirrored to imgur: https://imgur.com/a/30Co0Q2
NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
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Re: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
#12what on earth is with the black telephone hanging by a noose? some of these are pretty interesting.
"Hang up the phone."
Re: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
#13Some trippy posters in there. My favorite was the one where all of the NSA employees had lock mouths. I was surprised how religious some of these were, beyond just "Merry Christmas, don't forget about security" e.g "Christian ideals created freedom"
To be honest I'm not particularly surprised that there's a religious undercurrent to them. I don't exactly know how to quantify it, but as an outsider that's just sort of how I'd expect US propaganda posters to be. The US has always been particularly outwardly religious, so I guess I sort of expect it to play to those sensibilities when making these.
Re: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
#14"Men must be governed by God or they will be rules by tyrans"
Ah... O tempora, o mores...
Re: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
#15Some trippy posters in there. My favorite was the one where all of the NSA employees had lock mouths. I was surprised how religious some of these were, beyond just "Merry Christmas, don't forget about security" e.g "Christian ideals created freedom"
The ruling class of any country always abuses the most popular belief system for their profit.
Re: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
#16What strikes me (besides NSA apparently meaning 'Non-Secular Americans') is that a lot of these posters don't have the design flair and inspiration of, say, WWII propaganda posters.
Re: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
#17Kind of unnerving how a lot of those propaganda posters would be almost ironic to use in today's societal setting; or maybe its more unsettling how most people today don't care about having their rights infringed upon.
Re: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
#18What strikes me (besides NSA apparently meaning 'Non-Secular Americans') is that a lot of these posters don't have the design flair and inspiration of, say, WWII propaganda posters.
The NSA's existence was still not publicly acknowledged when some of these were commissioned (the versatile initialism then being "No Such Agency"), which may have shrunk the artist pool.
Re: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
#19You know,the scary thing about the US intelligence community isn't that they all are "after out liberties" or "againsy our privacy". My experience and encounters related to the IC scare me because they genuinely believe they're the good guys who're on the right side of justice. The real scary part is that they are scared of what will happen if they don't do something (where something entails disregarding laws and the will of the people). I would rather they be "after me" than scared of me.
I hope academics consider this before getting into bed with them. They don't just have a subersive mission,they're making decisions out of fear.
Re: NSA posters from the 50s and 60s [pdf]
#20Anyone recognize the paper tape format on page 103? I wonder if they included some hidden message in it.
EDIT: I manually transcribed the clearest part of the tape to binary (the start of the tape is the center of the poster, and it's viewed from behind at the part I transcribed), and pasted it into the converter at: https://v2.cryptii.com/ita2/text
Binary: "00100 00011 01100 01001 00100 00101 00111 10110 00001 01010 00110 11000 01010 00100 10010 00001 00011 01001 00001 01010 00101 10100 00110 10110 010001 00100 00010 111001 10100 111101 00110 00101 00100 00111 01100 00110 10111 00111 00001 00100 01110 11000 01100 10000 01010 00110 11001 00111 10000 00110 11000 01100 00101 00000 110101 101001 00011 01100 01001 00100 00011 01110 10100 00110 00001 11110 00001 11100 00001 01100 10000 00101 00100 11100 00011 10000 00001 01010 00110 00011 10010 10010 10101 00100 00011 00110 01001 00001 01001 00100 10000 11000"
Decoded: " and superior leadership his unique contributionsand achievements materially aided to"
Decoded, with the mysterious sixth bits deleted: " and superior leadership mhvis unique contributionsghand achievements materially aided to"
Unless the sixth bits have some hidden meaning, this appears to be just management's praise for somebody. It's tedious to transcribe manually, and a lot of it is unreadable, so I'll stop here.