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\"nixon\"<\/a>In July 1969 President Richard Nixon &\u00a0 CIA director Richard Helms paid a secret visit to UCLA for a meeting with Head of Computational Studies Walther Fuchs.<\/p>\n

It was after dark and Nixon & Helms were smuggled in a rear fire exit. Both were disguised and wore false beards and glasses in case they were spotted by some inquisitive student working late on her dissertation.<\/p>\n

In the study of Fuchs\u00a0 the 3 relaxed with Havana cigars and Hennessy Cognac. The study was lit by moonlight filtering through the thick drape curtains & a single green reading lamp on the worn teak desk.<\/p>\n

The walls were lined with antique leather bound books and a few more modern tomes with titles like “packet mode switching” and “The fundamentals of Electricity”<\/p>\n

Nixon exhaled slowly, blowing a couple of smoke rings before taking a large sip on his Cognac.<\/p>\n

Helms eyes moved around the room constantly as if searching for something elusive.<\/p>\n

Nixon – “Walter, we need your help & what you do must remain absolutely secret, you can’t even tell your Mother”<\/p>\n

Fuchs – “Of course, anything for my Country Sir”<\/p>\n

Helms – “we want you to develop a system which we can use to capture peoples communications”<\/p>\n

Nixon – “….it should appear entirely voluntary, so that they divulge their innermost secrets at will”<\/p>\n

Helms – “It will develop over time with more & more people becoming increasingly interconnected…..”<\/p>\n

Nixon – “if you help us we will invest billions of dollars here at UCLA & develop a whole new industry to support it’s growth….”<\/p>\n

Helms – “we will use it to fight International Crime & to defeat the Commies…”<\/p>\n

Fuchs – ” there……there is something I’m working on it’s called ARPANET”<\/p>\n

Helms – “sounds good but why don’t we call it the International Net……..or INTERNET..”<\/p>\n

Nixon exhaled and blew smoke rings across the room.<\/p>\n\n\n