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A comment on Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services.

Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by discordance on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @11:42PM (#31677348)
"As early as 1973, the FBI was running a program aimed at securing information about reading habits of many library users; this program was ultimately called the "Library Awareness Program.... The FBI claimed that one of the major reasons this program was initiated was because hostile intelligence agents had been able to find some information that could be dangerous to the security of the United States. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Awareness_Program

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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by citilife on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @11:47PM (#31677372)
you mean to tell me... the government has always wanted to know what I read? Call me shocked!
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by tablespoon on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @11:52PM (#31677387)
> you mean to tell me... the government has always wanted to know what I read? Call me shocked!

Not really:

> The FBI was particularly interested in learning this type of information about foreign diplomats or their agents.

> ...The area of greatest concern was the information at academic libraries that could be accessed through sophisticated databanks used for research. This point was illuminated by the report that a Soviet employee of the United Nations had been able to recruit a college student from Queens to obtain information at the library that was described as sensitive.

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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by chrisco255 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @01:52AM (#31677973)
Probably some piece of info you can search for in two seconds on the internet, nowadays.
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by mike_d on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:59AM (#31678664)
Libraries used to be where you could obtain detailed maps of your area. Great stuff for planning invasions (which both sides were always doing).
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