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Of course, "that's different", as always. The CIA has some seriously hyperactive idle curiosity.
by riehwvfbk 2y ago
Of course, "that's different", as always. The CIA has some seriously hyperactive idle curiosity.
- Cupertino95014 2y agoNow do the KGB.
- riehwvfbk 2y agoDEC already did it better back in the day: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html Too bad the message is in horribly garbled Russian. You'd need to have read this story in English to understand what it's trying to say.
- vaxman 2y agoawesome
- BiteCode_dev 2y agoIsn't it funny how American HN gets all touchy when we talk about their sins, illediatly telling you the others do bad things as well.
- signatoremo 2y agoAren’t you a little bit touchy yourself? During the Cold War espionage is the core mission of any intelligence agency. Anything can be acquired - bought or stolen, would be acquired. That wasn’t bad or a sin. That was the reality. Whether they became products is another matter. The US was well ahead of the Soviets on technology advancement. That was indisputable. So KGB had to work harder than CIA on this front. Doesn’t mean the concept is foreign to CIA