NSA director inherited Star Trek digs

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The Washington Post - Emily Heil, 9/16/13

 

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We’ve been hearing a lot about that Star Trek-esque command center run by now-NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander when he was leading the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command.

But while the spy chief seemed to enjoy a  Captain Kirk-worthy facility at Fort Belvoir, Va., which was reportedly the creation of a Hollywood set designer, it turns out that the command center was already in place when he took the job. It was built, sources tell our colleague Ellen Nakashima, in 1998. Alexander took over the post in 2001.

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