TC May writes:
The moral: If you're planning to pass secrets to the Russians, learn some tradecraft! (I was amazed at the ineptness of Ames, a senior CIA guy, in leaving such a trail. And amazed at the ineptness of his superior at the Agency for not checking up on him (they flutter .. Don't _any_ of them read Ludlum?
I think we all need to pay close attention to this. Perhaps he wanted to get caught - perhaps the russians wanted us to find out - perhaps we are not getting the whole story. I know something funny is up with regards to the "timing" of this thing coming out.
On Fri, 25 Feb 1994, Mark Hittinger wrote:
I think we all need to pay close attention to this. Perhaps he wanted to get caught - perhaps the russians wanted us to find out - perhaps we are not getting the whole story. I know something funny is up with regards to the "timing" of this thing coming out.
I have an amusing note to add to this. I was talking to a co-worker this week about the clipper articles I had been forwarding him. I told him that I thought we would soon have a media saturated incident concerning some form of criminal or terrorists. The criminal/terrorists would either a) get caught, and the feds will claim this couldn't have happened if their communications had been encrypted. b) a terrorist plot will succeed, and an after the fact investigation will show that the terrorists had been under surveilance, but the plot wasn't uncovered because of encryption. Looks like it was A. At least he doesn't think I'm a complete paranoid anymore. -ck
On Fri, 25 Feb 1994, Chris Knight wrote:
The criminal/terrorists would either a) get caught, and the feds will claim this couldn't have happened if their communications had been encrypted.
Has anyone from the spook world really suggested that the Ames case has any relevance to Clipper?? A CIA agent using external non standard encryption for his private communications would be like a courteous confession. Mats B
On Sat, 26 Feb 1994, Mats Bergstrom wrote:
Has anyone from the spook world really suggested that the Ames case has any relevance to Clipper?? A CIA agent using external non standard encryption for his private communications would be like a courteous confession.
Mats B
The link hasn't been made yet, though it would seem a logical prograssion from our misleading leaders. -ck
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