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Of course, "that's different", as always. The CIA has some seriously hyperactive idle curiosity.

Now do the KGB.

DEC already did it better back in the day: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

Too bad the message is in horribly garbled Russian. You'd need to have read this story in English to understand what it's trying to say.

awesome

Isn't it funny how American HN gets all touchy when we talk about their sins, illediatly telling you the others do bad things as well.

Aren’t you a little bit touchy yourself? During the Cold War espionage is the core mission of any intelligence agency. Anything can be acquired - bought or stolen, would be acquired. That wasn’t bad or a sin. That was the reality. Whether they became products is another matter.

The US was well ahead of the Soviets on technology advancement. That was indisputable. So KGB had to work harder than CIA on this front. Doesn’t mean the concept is foreign to CIA

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