Check Out 10 Vintage, Recently Declassified Posters Created to Keep NSA Workers Hush-Hush

They're puzzling, amusing and amazing

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When one thinks of the National Security Agency (NSA), creativity or wackiness are probably not the first things to come to mind. However, some recently declassified internal motivational posters for the government agency show that, in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, a “Hang In There, Baby” kitty poster simply wouldn’t do.

The posters weren’t exactly meant to fire the team up for the next sales convention in Del Boca Vista, but rather to keep pie holes shut since, well, secrecy is their business.

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