NODE f7e34f7dre: inept spy
Mark Hittinger <bugs@netsys.com>Fri, 25 Feb 94 20:16:08 PST
TC May writes:
>The moral: If you're planning to pass secrets to the Russians, learn
>some tradecraft! (I was amazed at the ineptness of Ames, a senior CIA
>guy, in leaving such a trail. And amazed at the ineptness of his
>superior at the Agency for not checking up on him (they flutter
> ..
>Don't _any_ of them read Ludlum?
I think we all need to pay close attention to this. Perhaps he wanted to
get caught - perhaps the russians wanted us to find out - perhaps we are
not getting the whole story. I know something funny is up with regards to
the "timing" of this thing coming out.
NODE 0bfac987re: inept spy
Chris Knight <cknight@crl.com>Fri, 25 Feb 94 21:20:13 PST
On Fri, 25 Feb 1994, Mark Hittinger wrote:
> I think we all need to pay close attention to this. Perhaps he wanted to
> get caught - perhaps the russians wanted us to find out - perhaps we are
> not getting the whole story. I know something funny is up with regards to
> the "timing" of this thing coming out.
I have an amusing note to add to this. I was talking to a co-worker this
week about the clipper articles I had been forwarding him. I told him
that I thought we would soon have a media saturated incident concerning
some form of criminal or terrorists.
The criminal/terrorists would either
a) get caught, and the feds will claim this couldn't have happened if their
communications had been encrypted.
b) a terrorist plot will succeed, and an after the fact investigation will
show that the terrorists had been under surveilance, but the plot
wasn't uncovered because of encryption.
Looks like it was A. At least he doesn't think I'm a complete paranoid
anymore.
-ck
NODE 7bddbf10inept spy
Mats Bergstrom <matsb@sos.sll.se>Sat, 26 Feb 94 02:16:07 PST
On Fri, 25 Feb 1994, Chris Knight wrote:
> The criminal/terrorists would either
> a) get caught, and the feds will claim this couldn't have happened if their
> communications had been encrypted.
Has anyone from the spook world really suggested that the Ames case has
any relevance to Clipper?? A CIA agent using external non standard
encryption for his private communications would be like a courteous
confession.
Mats B
NODE 51853ee4Re: inept spy
Chris Knight <cknight@crl.com>Sat, 26 Feb 94 02:25:18 PST
On Sat, 26 Feb 1994, Mats Bergstrom wrote:
> Has anyone from the spook world really suggested that the Ames case has
> any relevance to Clipper?? A CIA agent using external non standard
> encryption for his private communications would be like a courteous
> confession.
>
> Mats B
The link hasn't been made yet, though it would seem a logical prograssion
from our misleading leaders.
-ck