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Re:Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Resea... by village-idiot on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:33AM (#18191148)
Beyond that, a denial is actually quite rare. The 3 letter agencies usually stick with the Glomar Response, we can neither confirm nor deny, to prevent people from determining the truth by process of elimination.
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Re:Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Resea... by rangibaby on Thursday October 11, 2018 @03:47AM (#18191634)
Refuse to confirm or deny could have helped the US in 1960:

An American U2 "weather research" plane is shot down over the USSR.

The US strongly denied that the U2 was a spy plane and produced "weather research" U2s in NASA livery and a story about how the pilot's oxygen equipment malfunctioned.

...the USSR had failed to mention that the U2 pilot (Gary Powers) was alive and well, and that the definitely-a-spy-plane was recovered mostly intact. Oops!

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