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Are you asking if there's a particular reason the CIA caused you to read HN today and click on a CIA-related headline? Edit: Worth noting that this particular item was discovered from the recently released CIA CREST database, which contains 13 million pages of CIA records. So it's likely that your random chances of seeing a "Isn't this CIA document weird?" story will be a lot higher this year as people go through the…
Ah I see (in edit) -- thank you.
I would also know all about holidays, if the newspaper had to be stopped for a while then I would know where they were going and when they would be back. I did put two and two together - 'Cyprus again...' - and I also saw the subtle differences in dress code and lifestyle that goes with these civil servants.
I do wonder if the CIA thought to recruit paperboys to do some intelligence gathering for them, perfect 'cover'!!!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you asking if there's a particular reason the CIA caused you to read HN today and click on a CIA-related headline? Edit: Worth noting that this particular item was discovered from the recently released CIA CREST database, which contains 13 million pages of CIA records. So it's likely that your random chances of seeing a "Isn't this CIA document weird?" story will be a lot higher this year as people go through the…
Ah I see (in edit) -- thank you.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/mar/23/dia-worri...
As a child/teenager delivering newspapers in Gloucestershire every day I knew who worked for GCHQ and who worked for other military/aerospace concerns that had security clearances. I had no interest, this was just standard knowledge needed for my 'performance targets' of getting to their houses before they drove to work. I would know all village gossip and know the business of every house in the village, a very detai…
As a child/teenager delivering newspapers in Gloucestershire every day I knew who worked for GCHQ and who worked for other military/aerospace concerns that had security clearances. I had no interest, this was just standard knowledge needed for my 'performance targets' of getting to their houses before they drove to work. I would know all village gossip and know the business of every house in the village, a very detai…
Its easy to come up with a cover story in London for a math geek not so much in Cheltenham
This is the second puff piece about the CIA I've read recently (non-American). Any particular reason for these or is it random?
As a child/teenager delivering newspapers in Gloucestershire every day I knew who worked for GCHQ and who worked for other military/aerospace concerns that had security clearances. I had no interest, this was just standard knowledge needed for my 'performance targets' of getting to their houses before they drove to work. I would know all village gossip and know the business of every house in the village, a very detai…
Probably. It's not novel even in my experience to see an example of children making remarkably effective spies, and I'm just some goober who reads a lot.
As a child/teenager delivering newspapers in Gloucestershire every day I knew who worked for GCHQ and who worked for other military/aerospace concerns that had security clearances. I had no interest, this was just standard knowledge needed for my 'performance targets' of getting to their houses before they drove to work. I would know all village gossip and know the business of every house in the village, a very detai…
Probably. It's not novel even in my experience to see an example of children making remarkably effective spies, and I'm just some goober who reads a lot.