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The US government was not murdering anonymous strangers using a shadowy intelligence agency with no oversight 100 years ago. Army SigInt was only founded in 191
by ch4s3 4y ago
The US government was not murdering anonymous strangers using a shadowy intelligence agency with no oversight 100 years ago. Army SigInt was only founded in 1917, and prior the US didn't formally employ any spies, and certainly didn't carry out assassinations.
- inglor_cz 4y agoOther governments possibly did, though probably in a way less organized than today. In 1896, under circumstances not entirely clear, Sun was caught and detained for 13 days by the Chinese legation in London. It appears likely that Sun ran into a fellow Cantonese who worked for the legation and was found out and seized while visiting him under an alias. The legation planned to ship Sun back to China, but, before this could be done, Sun had converted a British employee at the legation to his side and got word through to James Cantlie, former dean of Hong Kong College of Medicine. The British Foreign Office intervened, and Sun was released from his captivity. The incident engendered great publicity and gave Sun’s career a powerful boost. From the biography of Sun Yat Sen. They probably wanted to execute him in China for plotting against the throne. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sun-Yat-sen https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sun-Yat-sen
- ch4s3 4y agoSure, but we are talking about the US specifically here.