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In 1942, as a newly-minted U.S. Army second lieutenant, my father was sent
to the brand-new Prisoner of War Interrogator School at Camp Ritchie,
Maryland, the Army having finally discovered that he spoke German, French,
and Italian. One of the "country retreats" whose property bordered on the
Army camp belonged to the Spanish ambassador. Dad told me once that whenever
the corps of students was assembled in formation on the parade grounds, you
could actually *see* the ambassador or members of his staff gathered on the
hillside overlooking Camp Ritchie, very carefully scanning the facilities
with high-powered binoculars and cameras with telephoto lenses. It was an
open "secret" that Franco's government worked hand-in-glove with the Gestapo
to provide intelligence to the Axis, and everyone assumed that whatever
information the Spanish managed to generate would be passed on immediately
to Berlin.
Another comment: for years the National Security Agency was so hyper-secret
that the information was available on it from any sort, public or covert.
That veil finally lifted in the early Sixties, after two NSA specialists
defected to the Soviet Union and revealed things about the cyberspooks of
Fort Meade that raised a lot of eyebrows throughout the "Free World."
BTW, thinking of spies and Ireland, you might want to look into the history
of the German attempts to build an espionage network in the Irish Free State
during WW2. It's a bizarre assortment of blunders that puts the lie to the
vaunted German "efficiency." One German agent parachuted into Ireland
carrying his lunch. Another spoke no English. And when the Abwehr
(Counterintelligence) recruited IRA "freedom fighters" as German agents,
they rapidly discovered that the Irish rebels refused to take orders...all
they were interested in was learning how to blow up Brits.
----- Original Message -----
From: Prudence L. Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 2:27 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Fwd: Spy Hunter - Joke Of The Day
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>
> This reminds me of the time the new CIA headquarters was being built. A
real
> estate developer wanted to build apartments near it, but he couldn't find
out
> the exact location or how many people were going to work there. Every
query
> was answered by his being told all that information was classified.
Finally
> a friend told him to try calling the Russian Embassy and asking them. The
> clerk who answered the telephone gave him the exact information he was
> looking for. Prudy
>
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