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'Exorcists' Tried to Purge the NSA of Its Demons in Manhattan This Weekend

“Watching us, watching them, watching us.”

In Greek lore, a "gorgon" is a monster so hideous that it is dangerous, even deadly, to look upon it. In New York City's lore, the AT&T Long Lines building in lower Manhattan is a brutalist skyscraper so ugly one assumes something malevolent must be happening inside.

On April 15, about a dozen people in aluminum foil hats tried to shrink this building using exorcism rites and flip phones.

Organized by musician Eli Smith and Noah Harley, editor of the self-published newspaper The Quiet American, along with friends and fellow performance artists, the ritual was inspired by The Intercept's reporting on NSA spy site TITANPOINTE. Supposedly housed within two stories of the AT&T Long Lines building, the site is thought to be one of the most important National Security Agency surveillance locations in the US. As the story broke in November 2016, it was rapidly buried by the presidential elections.

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