Posted on 02/12/2020 12:18:37 PM PST by ransomnote
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for U.S. troops during World War II. SNIP
The Swiss firm made millions of dollars selling equipment to more than 120 countries well into the 21st century. Its clients included Iran, military juntas in Latin America, nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, and even the Vatican.
But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages.
The decades-long arrangement, among the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War, is laid bare in a classified, comprehensive CIA history of the operation obtained by The Washington Post and ZDF, a German public broadcaster, in a joint reporting project.
The account identifies the CIA officers who ran the program and the company executives entrusted to execute it. It traces the origin of the venture as well as the internal conflicts that nearly derailed it. It describes how the United States and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets.
The operation, known first by the code name “Thesaurus” and later “Rubicon,” ranks among the most audacious in CIA history.
“It was the intelligence coup of the century,” the CIA report concludes. “Foreign governments were paying good money to the U.S. and West Germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by at least two (and possibly as many as five or six) foreign countries.”
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I think the USPS offsets all US Govt profits.
Wanna bet the CIA is doing this and more now? Wonder why they are so close to google, facebook, apple, etc and why they are so worried that the Chinese are getting into the act with their 5g company huewai (sp?)
I’ve read that Silicon Valley is owned by the CIA essentially. Yes - they do harvest and share our info. People like Bezos and Zuckerberg aren’t’ geniuses who invented great things - they are puppets set in front of the public as fronts to software developed by DARPA and coordinated, accessed by CIA to work against the American people and against countries they work to over throw. :(
The CIA owned, and probably still does own, quite a few companies that were started for “cover” but don’t necessarily have anything to do with spycraft. Some of them they kept around simply because the company turned out to be very profitable, and the CIA can use that money to fund “black budget” ops instead of going to Congress to get funding.
Well, China and the Soviet Union are noticeably absent in the list of clients.
Yes, the government figured out quite a while ago that even though it is illegal for them to collect a lot of data on U.S. citizens, it is perfectly legal for private companies to collect that same data and then sell it to the government.
The Clintons started saturating the Agency with lefties.
The Clintons started saturating the Agency with lefties
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I call those “lefties” traitors and sociopaths.
Facebook, 23andMe, Google, ...
See “In-Q-Tel”.... a total creation by them, and the Brennan protege from “technology” section, a— get this Zoology undergraduate from Duke Univ.-— was escalated up to the next in line to be Dir. of National Intelligence (Clapper for obi-wan, then Dan bozo plant Coats— Trump fired him).
They thought she would “move right on up” and keep the Tech fake fronts working against the US citizenry and Trump. Didn’t happen. Trump pushed her out. And has in place right now— Admiral Maguire. A real combat SEAL commander (not the greaseball living in Qatar Adm. McRaven, raking in the obi-wan gun running money). Adm. Maguire refused the IC IG Atkinson’s premise for the Ciaramella “whistleblower” (which Atkinson invented from changing the rules to hearsay is Ok).
The worms are turning and whining the whole way.
OK, so they could read all of the mail. So how did they keep screwing it up?
OK, so they could read all of the mail. So how did they keep screwing it up?
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