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Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by hydrox24 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:29PM (#21678872)
Is the article you are talking about "What Putin Really Wants" by Julia Ioffe[0]? It was published in January 2018. It doesn't have the USB key story you're talking about though.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/putins-...

Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by papito on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:52PM (#21679003)
Ah! I was wrong on two counts. This was in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-an...

And the breach happened in Kabul, NOT the Pentagon.