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Step 1: Send your CIA agents to steal it. Step 2: Make it look like common thieves did it. Step 3: Profit?
by mtgx 6y ago
Step 1: Send your CIA agents to steal it.
Step 2: Make it look like common thieves did it.
Step 3: Profit?
- dexen 6y agoYou joke but there's a historical precedent - the story of Lunik[1], soviet spacecraft that was intercepted, examined, dismantled (!) and then put back together and moved forward, by CIA operatives. [1] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol11no1/html/v11i1a04p_0001.htm https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
- secfirstmd 6y agoSome other examples. Russia stole a sidewinder from the US. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19042850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19042850 Brits stole a towed acoustic array from the Russians https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a28794/1982-uk-sub-stole-soviet-sonar-device/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a28794/...