-Caveat Lector-
Well, I don't really believe that the bombing of the Chinese Embassy was an
accident. Even the CIA ain't *that* stupid. Besides, intelligence officers
have to be used to working with old maps and atlases, sometimes *very* old.
During the Italian campaign in 1944-45, Allied Intelligence realized that the
Germans were using the old, pre-WWI Austrian names for towns, rivers, and
other geographic features in the Italian Tyrol, thus making it difficult for
POW interrogators to know what German prisoners were talking about. So G-2
just hunted up pre-WWI copies of *Baedeker's Süd-Tirol*, which had better maps
than they were using anyway... And in North Africa, the standard maps used by
the first Allied units following the landings in Morocco in 1942 were simply
the Michelin tourist maps, complete with "scenic routes" carefully marked out.
I still have one of those maps which belonged to my father. (His war souvenirs
tended to be a little different--his other souvenir of North Africa is a
grammar of Moroccan Arabic.)
Bob
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