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    'Nothing is beyond our reach,' National Reconnaissance Office's new logo claims

    Published December 06, 2013 / FoxNews.com

    The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office launched a new spy satellite Thursday evening on mission NROL-39 -- and the new logo and tagline are quite an eye opener.

    The new logo features a giant, world-dominating octopus, its sucker-covered tentacles encircling the planet while it looks on with determination, a steely glint in its enormous eye. The logo carries a five-word tagline: “Nothing is beyond our reach.”

    Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist and senior policy analyst with the ACLU, raised a quizzical eyebrow at the new slogan.

    “Advice to @ODNIgov: You may want to downplay the massive dragnet spying thing right now. This logo isn't helping,” he wrote.

    An agency spokeswoman told Forbes that there's a very good reason for the symbol: The octopus is intelligent, and therefore a good emblem for an intelligence agency.

    “NROL-39 is represented by the octopus, a versatile, adaptable, and highly intelligent creature. Emblematically, enemies of the United States can be reached no matter where they choose to hide,” said Karen Furgerson, a spokeswoman for the NRO. “‘Nothing is beyond our reach’ defines this mission and the value it brings to our nation and the warfighters it supports, who serve valiantly all over the globe, protecting our nation.”



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    How Communism Works, 1938

    Even before the official onset of the Cold War following World War II, many Americans were concerned with the spread of communism. This pamphlet cover portrays Soviet communism as an octopus whose tentacles seek to encircle the planet.



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    Re: 'Nothing is beyond our reach,' National Reconnaissance Office's new logo claims

    We were at the NC Aquarium in Pine Knoll (Noll??) Shores recently (we go there a lot) on a behind the scenes tour. The person giving the tour told us they had an issue with fish disappearing and they couldn't figure out what was going on.

    Well, it turns out that the octopus had opened the top of its tank, went to another tank to get the fish, then went back to its own tank and closed the top.

    Talk about intelligence for a non-human.

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    Re: 'Nothing is beyond our reach,' National Reconnaissance Office's new logo claims

    all the worlds a stage ......

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