Spies, Lies and Realpolitik

Alas post #523.

They used hotels, etc. for brothels.

U.S. and China race to shield secrets from quantum computers

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/us-china-tech-quantum/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

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This story is hilarious. Some highlights:

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Reminds me of this recent podcast

In the interview, which pointedly does not cover the 2016 election, Strzok talks about among othe things the Illegals Program and why the Americans was not accurate. For instance, one of the sleeper agents had a thick Russian accent, and pretended that it was “Czech”.

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It’s really gone downhill since Carla defected.

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You remember Oleg right?

How Putin’s Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team

https://time.com/5401645/putins-oligarchs/

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Gee, I wonder who could have taken it… :thinking:

The binder was last seen at the White House during Trump’s final days in office. The former president had ordered it brought there so he could declassify a host of documents related to the FBI’s Russia investigation. Under the care of then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the binder was scoured by Republican aides working to redact the most sensitive information so it could be declassified and released publicly.

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I see he buys buildings where the windows aren’t that high up. Good move.

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From the air? I’m thinking Elon.

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To quote Ben Affleck “They’re fucking clown shoes”

Like, not even a little due dilligence?

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It also warned against organisations “recruiting aviation enthusiasts as volunteers” to transmit China’s flight data to other countries

Someone doesn’t like Flightradar24 and similar crowd-sourced ADS-B services!

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