Spy vs. Spy

The userpic is a bit more appropriate than usual in this case. It’s a report about a CIA operation back in the early 80s to deal with how the Soviets were “acquiring” US technology secretly. If this is indeed the case, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, I must say that this was simply beautiful. The story, by William Safire, here.

Advertisement
Published in: on February 1, 2004 at 23:35  Comments (3)  
Tags: ,

3 Comments

  1. On February 2, 2004 at 00:04 troglodyteking said:

    Wow, that is a really neat story. Further proof (assuming it is true) that the best thing to do when you find a spy is not to remove him, but to coddle him and use him to feed only the information you want to the enemy.

  2. On February 2, 2004 at 06:18 s33k3r said:

    Information on these sorts of operations have been in print for some time. We were brilliant during the Cold War.
    Other things we used to do is plant surveillance/transmission equipment in teletype printer, computer printers, computer equipment, and computer software.

  3. On February 2, 2004 at 09:09 gaaneden said:

    Wow. I’ll say they were brilliant.


Comments are closed.

%d bloggers like this: