He was also in charge of the belated tower construction and was being forced into retirement Upon completion of all but the top four floors. When asked what those floors were for he replied that he had no improvement plans. When I asked why not he responded, "Beats the hell out of me but they are building it like a fort!
The use of the info gained from the technology was first used to ferret out gay students at BYU. Six of whom committed suicide after a meeting with Spencer W. Kimball. By 1975 the technology was in full operation as discussed in Under The Mormon Tree.
How much digital info on Americans and others is stored in the equipment on those top floors of world headquarters can only be guessed at. It is without a doubt obtained sans court order and all in violation of the constitutional privacy rights of Americans. Info collected from other locations of the world likewise is illegal.
If the reader thinks that is scary information; consider what is presently being developed to augment those digital records in the state of Utah!
The National Security Agency (NSA) is building a 1.5 million square feet cyber storage facility in Utah costing 1.6 Billion Dollars. See:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221100260
The stated purpose is the same as the Mormon spying; to know who to move against when the occasion arises: Those who would oppose fascist control of the world.
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