20130408

NSA closing secretive listening post north of Yakima


YAKIMA — The National Security Agency is closing a secretive listening post it has quietly operated north of Yakima since the early 1970s, The Yakima Herald reported Thursday.

The office of Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., confirmed some details of the closure of the “Yakima Research Station,” said the paper in an article written by Craig Trojanello. Hastings was informed of the pending closure last summer by the NSA, the Herald said, according to his press secretary, Neal Kirby.

Some of the Yakima functions are being moved to Colorado, he said, as a streamlining measure...

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