Every day, a courier went up to New York on the train and returned to Fort Meade with large reels of magnetic tape, which were copies of the international telegrams sent from New York the preceding day using the facilities of three telegraph companies, RCA Global, ITT World Communications, and Western Union. SHAMROCK started during World War II to scoop up copies of all foreign telegrams; it continued under the NSA after its formation in 1952.
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