Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation

Re:Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation by gitweb on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:09PM (#25060234)

Dang, typical CIA though sell the company and not disclose that it was basically a shell company for shady operations where they happily charged countries lots of money and then bragged about it to essentially spy on them.

I feel really bad for whoever bought the company not knowing about its secrets this greatly devaluing the name and forever tarnishing the brand. There's got to be some type of repercussions and avenue for their deceit to the innocent people that ended up suffering here.

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Re:Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation by acqq on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:27PM (#25060431)

Regarding "not knowing about its secrets" -- There were much earlier reports, as an example, from the Wikipedia article, there was an article in The Baltimore Sun, 1995:

"America's National Security Agency hid what may be the intelligence sting of the century. For years, NSA secretly rigged Crypto AG machines so that U.S. eavesdroppers could easily break their codes, according to former company employees whose story is supported by company documents."

And also in the same Baltimore Sun article a much earlier report about the company founder, Boris Hagelin (1982) is mentioned:

"Writer James Bamford added more clues in his 1982 book on NSA, "The Puzzle Palace." Discovering in Mr. Friedman's letters references to a mysterious "Boris project," Mr. Bamford concluded that Mr. Friedman had extracted from Boris Hagelin an agreement to cooperate with American eavesdroppers."

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Re:Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation by vmception on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:43PM (#25060635)

But then all the FOIA requests got sent to the wrong agency! hahaha nice misdirection, top notch trolling everyone!

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