A friend of mine went to work for NSA when she moved to Maryland just after being married. Her first assignment was to sort and identify items in a very large warehouse near Fort Meade, MD.
She said it resembled the warehouse scene at the end of Indiana Jones....It was full of items that NSA had lost track of. For all they knew, the Ark could have been there.
I bet a good portion of the stuff was recordings of Russian Moylina TV satellite downloads and subsequent efforts to discover what data lay between frames