inept spy
Chris Knight
cknight at crl.com
Fri Feb 25 21:20:13 PST 1994
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
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