The 12 best posters from the very odd NSA archive
Long before it was at the centre of a huge spying scandal, the US National Security Agency had the communist threat to deal with - and wanted to make sure its staff did not spill secrets.
A vast archive of posters, apparently for display at the spy agency's offices, has been posted online thanks to a freedom of information request from governmentattic.org.
The website asked for "a digital/electronic copy of the NSA old security posters from the 1950s and 1960s", although confusingly it also got one featuring John Travolta.
Here are some of our favourites. The full, 139-page document, can be found here.
1. The ominous one
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2. The one with the art history
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NSA4. The one for sports fans
NSA5. The festive one
NSA6. The one with the tight trousers
NSA7. The one with someone who doesn't even know what security is
NSA8. The one with the more obvious metaphor
NSA9. The one with the bad trip
NSA10. The psychedelic one
NSA11. The one that brings you down to earth
NSA12. The one with the eager ear
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