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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!
- Message-ID: <8fknh!=.strnlght@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 08:55:47 GMT
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- Marcus Ranum claims the Sovs wouldn't have revealed their estimate of
- CIA employees because: "The sovs were too professional and too
- closed-mouthed to give out information like that, and if they knew,
- the fact that they knew would be information they wouldn't want to
- reveal."
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- Perhaps he knows something I don't. I've worked with the Soviets for
- many years, been invited to Moscow by the Academy of Sciences to
- give seminars and to meet privately with their leadership (including
- Gorbachev's Science, Energy, and Economics advisors) on a regular
- basis. They've often told me stuff they knew that we thought was secret.
- Often it's the Russian sense of humor in twitting us about our
- "secrets" as long as it doesn't reveal their sources and methods.
-
- The number of employees at the CIA is not a piece of information that
- would reveal Soviet sources and methods by itself.
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- Ranum appears also to hold the Washington Post in contempt. My understand
- of the facts is different.
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- David
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