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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by hn_123 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:15PM (#13347649)
Perhaps decades later ex CIA operatives in their memoirs might reveal the extent to which the agency was present and involved in the events during that period. It's naive to think otherwise considering they were all over various banana republics with much less at stake..

Time will tell.

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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by nooron on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:42PM (#13347750)
The CIA had virtually zero footprint in Russia throughout the Cold War. All in all, it is not a remarkably effective institution for collecting human intelligence or for sabotage – the United States IC is far superior with signals intel. Much of our history as a nation over the last 50 years reflects this; consider, who brought Khrushchev's secret speech to the United States? It wasn't a CIA officer or asset.

It is very naïve to think that the CIA is as potent as you do.

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