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Yep. Even the spooky Stratfor[1] would have more information than this. This is nothing like what Snowden or literally hundreds of thousands of people who hold

Yep. Even the spooky Stratfor[1] would have more information than this. This is nothing like what Snowden or literally hundreds of thousands of people who hold TS/SCI have access to (identities of NCOs or other espionage operatives, access to recruiting databases for foreign nationals who went abroad to the US for graduate studies and are being assessed as potential intelligence assets by their professors, etc). A pissed off 4channer with good Google-fu could get more information than this. [1] Which I'm sure intelligence agencies are thankful for, because all the tin-foil hatters are misplacing their resources in designing conspiracy theories about an incompetent "private intelligence organization" which amounts to a bunch of people who could easily be outsmarted by a 4chan-er with good Google-fu. You know all those stories you heard about the KGB being incompetent, or now hear about how the Party is in modern China w/r/t information control? Yeah.. the FIVEEYES are about on par when it comes to incompetence.

mistermann 11y ago
> recruiting databases for foreign nationals who went abroad to the US for graduate studies and are being assessed as potential intelligence assets by their professors Is this for real?
- jonesetc 11y ago
  Yes, it also happens in the reverse direction. Foreign nationals going abroad with the goal of gaining intelligence from professors.
  - Abraln 11y ago
    When I was a research assistant in college in the US, we had an Iranian student apply to work with us several times, even after we told him no the first time. We were researching the properties of yellow cake uranium for the Department of Energy! Obviously there are strict rules on that kind of work, hiring him would have been VERY illegal, but he still kept bugging us even after telling him that.
- schoen 11y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Duffie_Shriver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Duffie_Shriver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xlUNK4JHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xlUNK4JHQ (I would like to see corresponding movies warning students coming to study in the U.S. about U.S. government attempts to recruit them.)

mistermann 11y ago

> recruiting databases for foreign nationals who went abroad to the US for graduate studies and are being assessed as potential intelligence assets by their professors Is this for real?

jonesetc 11y ago
Yes, it also happens in the reverse direction. Foreign nationals going abroad with the goal of gaining intelligence from professors.
- Abraln 11y ago
  When I was a research assistant in college in the US, we had an Iranian student apply to work with us several times, even after we told him no the first time. We were researching the properties of yellow cake uranium for the Department of Energy! Obviously there are strict rules on that kind of work, hiring him would have been VERY illegal, but he still kept bugging us even after telling him that.
schoen 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Duffie_Shriver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Duffie_Shriver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xlUNK4JHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xlUNK4JHQ (I would like to see corresponding movies warning students coming to study in the U.S. about U.S. government attempts to recruit them.)