[Cryptography] Mention of Joe Biden in "Puzzle Palace"

[John-Mark Gurney]

Dave Horsfall wrote this message on Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 07:16 +1100:
> Having just (re)read James Bamford's "Puzzle Palace", I noticed a 
> reference to one United States Senator Joe Biden, who was a member of the 
> Senate Intelligence Committee.  Apparently he revealed a major security 
> breach in the mid-70s when a "young sergeant" in a "very, very sensitive 
> position working with the National Security Agency" managed to smuggle out 
> some information on a tape recorder.
> 
> That got me wondering: not being an American, would this be the current 
> Joe Biden?  I can't seem to find any hard information on it.

Don't see any other senator's w/ the name Biden on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_United_States_senators

So, it's highly likely is, though he was a very young senator at the time,
as the list shows he started serving in 1973.

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