The third installment of The Post's investigation into the growth of top-secret government work after Sept. 11, 2001, takes readers to the capital of Top Secret America. Fort Meade, Md., anchors the largest of a dozen clusters of top-secret government organizations and the companies that do work for them. They are in otherwise ordinary suburbs where hotels rent eavesdrop-proof rooms, road signs advertise job fairs for workers with top-secret clearances, and even the manhole covers are not what you might expect. Around Fort Meade, as in suburbs across the nation, the intelligence community goes about its anonymous business. Its work isn't seen, but its impact is surely felt. Read today's story and review the first two parts at washingtonpost.com/topsecretamerica.
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