Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft

Post by dragonwriter » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 9:32 PM UTC

unlinked_dll wrote: post #66

jessaustin wrote: post #47

Wow CIA agents are actually just swell folks who have all of our best interests at heart. I feel a lot better about all those third-nation torture dungeons now. Earlier this year NPR hired as CEO the guy who previously ran the USA organization for external propaganda. It's so surprising that NPR are even more committed to internal propaganda than they were before they hired him.

I'm having trouble understanding how one can seriously consider NPR 'internal propaganda.' Their national broadcasts are like radically centrist and unbiased while the local/syndicated programs can be hard hitting and completely opposed to the government.

Post by walrus01 » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 9:38 PM UTC

i_am_nomad wrote: post #38

goatinaboat wrote: post #12

to "the Farm," a secret CIA facility in Virginia where their grueling training included all the obligatory skills of what Fox refers to as "the Bond business": how to flip or crash a car; how to use a Glock; how to parachute; how to use a speedboat; how to withstand torture; how to use a grocery bag and duct tape to bandage a punctured chest; and how to commit suicide This is over-egging the pudding a bit.

I’ve had a bit of interaction with the Farm. As a kid, my dad and I would sail past it (as close as you can get without being blared at). I’ve heard explosions coming from there, and seen people rappelling from helicopters into the woods. Later, I was a physics student at a university very close to Camp Perry. We were able to detect microwave transmissions on odd bands, at odd hours, that seemed to be directed from o…

Post by OJFord » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 9:39 PM UTC

c3534l wrote: post #68

When did "eatery" become an acceptable term for restaurant?

Post by adwi » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 9:44 PM UTC

unlinked_dll wrote: post #74

dragonwriter wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm having trouble understanding how one can seriously consider NPR 'internal propaganda.' Their national broadcasts are like radically centrist and unbiased “Radically centrist” and “unbiased” are mutually incompatible descriptions, the former of which is compatible with propaganda favoring the elite consensus.

Radically centrist in that they go out of their way not to be liberal or conservative in an attempt to stay unbiased, sometimes to the detriment of the programming.

Post by wwweston » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 9:47 PM UTC

beamatronic wrote: post #29

kps wrote: post #20

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Moore's Law says you now bug every restaurant table in DC.

Crowdsource. Pay people to run an app when they go around DC, that records constantly from their mic, and uploads it to the cloud along with their location. I’m sure someone has already thought of this!