On Fri, 10 May 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Found a bit more detail on WALNUT:
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/TN/nbstechnicalnote157.pdf
See page 86. Includes some B&W photos, including one of the unit that
you show.
Was WALNUT ever used outside of the CIA?
With no first-hand knowledge, I would assume that NSA also used such.
Half a century ago, when I worked at The National Space Science Data
Center (NASA, Greenbelt) we dealt with a lot of data. But that is like a
floppy compared to NSA, especially the Utah Data Center!