quote: Yevgeny recounts with glee how many early British spies were caught because their documents had stainless steel staples, which unlike the Soviet ones, did not rust
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skdadl
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posted 02 March 2006 08:27 AM
Fascinating and evocative though the spycraft was, I'll bet that about half of it was ineffective or unworkable, just "boys and their toys" stuff born more of geeky fantasy than anything else.
I assume that that game continues today, unfortunately. The CIA are famous for coming up with geeky fantasies that never do anything but get people killed pointlessly.
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posted 02 March 2006 03:08 AM
