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Didn’t he piece rumors and made intelligent guesses so well that the government freaked out wondering where the leak was?
by bombcar 4mo ago
Didn’t he piece rumors and made intelligent guesses so well that the government freaked out wondering where the leak was?
- lukan 4mo agoPossible he had a real source?
- djeastm 4mo agoPossibly, but I can't imagine a writer taking that kind of chance at the height of the Cold War just for verisimilitude.
- lukan 4mo agoI mean, the way I imagine it is he chatted with one ore more guys and after a while he got bits here and there he was technically not supposed to have, not enough of its own, but with imagination enough to get the rough picture of how it worked and got very close. But I don't think conscious braking of classified information happened. More carelessness I guess.
- bombcar 4mo agoThat's what I've heard - intelligent research, combined with unclassified facts gleaned from conversations at coffeeshops and bars, led to a pretty accurate picture.
- rolph 4mo agosometimes, you just have to hang out in the right bar, and you will hear a multitude of secrets, this is why some projects had thier own towns so none of the inside would get out.
- lukan 4mo agoRussia was a bit more extreme in that regard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city
- Simulacra 4mo agoI seem to recall reading that is basically what he did. He had good sources, he was an excellent writer, and a world class researcher.