Clearinghouse for government and private linguists

[Harold F. Schiffman]

>>From the New York Times, November 6, 2003


Center to Speed U.S. Translations

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

      WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 Counterterrorism officials said on Wednesday that
they planned to open a clearinghouse for government and private linguists
by January to allow faster translation of possible terrorist
communications. The director of the clearinghouse, a National Security
Agency linguist named Everette Jordan, is expected to announce plans for
what will be known as the National Virtual Translation Center today.
An official at the F.B.I., which will help lead the multi-agency
clearinghouse, said, "This has been a critical need
of ours for some time."

Lawmakers have identified the intelligence community's inability to
translate many intercepted terrorist communications quickly as a pressing
problem.

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