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Not sure where you were going with that, but what RUSI is talking about is much more of the internet kind, I think. Identifying component mfgrs, intercepting comms, identifying middlemen, tracking sales, tracking shipments, und-und-und. Objects of interest being computer ships, precision electromechanical components, high tech materials, that sort of thing. Not that all of it is small stuff - machine tools tend to be bigger than a breadbox, but I know first-hand that Germans can be whores when it comes to selling to embargoed nations via front companies. (It involved Iran in the '00s - don't ask for more.) I was never even a .gov employee, much less a spook, but I worked in large corps long enough to see how various depts hoard information, to gain advantages over each other, (and they are all supposed to be on the same team!) That British and Americans for example would be keeping stuff back from one another would just be human (bureaucrat) nature. That's what I mean by "silos". The sort of thing that allowed 9/11 to happen.

“...Germans can be whores...”

They’ve got nothing on China and Iran. And Russia was working with scrambling information and computer disruption back in the 1970’s.

Plus, another way to look at it is if our government even knew where to start but knew the middle men were in place and deals were, being made to keep the public with their heads in the sand so the public wouldn’t know of any consent by most nations, does it men anything? Welcome to the 21st century.

Nothing is as it seems. And I did work with some special agents during my years in the military, the department of the army, and the DOD. The spooks are just people playing a game the common citizen has no inking what it is or how far it goes. The public is just too busy trying to get someone to admit to UFO’s and to find the best grass or shoot their neighbor. They already have way too much information to process as it is. And they will never know the truth.

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