Countries whose communications were compromised include (but are not limited to) 62 customers: THE AMERICAS, EUROPE, AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, REST OF ASIA, Argentina, Austria, Algeria, Iran, Bangladesh, Brazil, Angola, Iraq, Burma, Czechoslovakia, India, Egypt, Chile, Jordan, Greece, Indonesia, Gabon, Colombia, Kuwait, Hungary, Japan, Ghana, Honduras, Lebanon, Ireland, Malaysia, Guinea, Oman, Mexico, Italy, Pakistan, Ivory Coast, Qatar, Nicaragua, Portugal, Philippines, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Romania, South Korea, Syria, Mauritius, Uruguay, Spain, Thailand, Morocco, U.A.E., Venezuela, Turkey, Vietnam, Nigeria, Vatican City, Rep. of the Congo, Yugoslavia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zaire, United Nations, Zimbabwe
Amazing what our intel agencies could achieve in the days before they were totally consumed with deposing Trump.
This story amazes me - first, that it was ever published at all, and in the Washington Post at that! It’s a massive information cache - I recommend reading the entire article!
The CIA was trying to exit quietly in 2017 - 2018 (because Hillary Clinton did NOT win!) and split up the assets for sale (e.g., nothing to see here!). Last month, when asked about the CIA ownership of Crypto, the lead executive of it’s last remaining assets “appeared visibly shaken” and worried about the safety of it’s employees when this information was released.
Were their prices reasonable?
So “the company” ran a large number of commerical ventures: electronics, drug running, all to held their benign overlords achieve world peace.
For many years it was said that the CIA Airlines AIR AMERICA, was the only government entity to consistently show a profit.
And now we have Crypto AG, looks to have been a profitable venture.
I printed out the article and was reading it during lunch. I encourage other Freepers to do the same.
It really was quite the intel coup for the CIA and better yet, it didn’t become exposed ‘til after it was shut down.
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This is not new news.
This is what the wikipedia article looked like last year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crypto_AG&oldid=897125887
“Le Temps has argued that Crypto AG had been actively working with the British, US and West German secret services since 1956, going as far as to rig manuals after the wishes of the NSA.[13][14] These claims were vindicated by US government documents declassified in 2015.”
The Washington Post writes this as if it's a bad thing.
But thanks to the Walker spy ring, the Soviets had access to all of our naval communications for a long, long time. The Washington Post probably portrayed Walker as a hero.
We should definitely take this as an object lesson if we wish to let Communist China supply equipment, set up, and run 5G network’s in democratic countries.
And yet with all that Intel they still couldn’t figure out that Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen were Soviet spies for 20 years.
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?)
The Clintons started saturating the Agency with lefties.
Facebook, 23andMe, Google, ...
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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