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| Issue #71 / The Monthly Journal of the American Hacker / March 2010 |
"March 25, 1986, looks to be another really bad day. The U.S. Navy and the Libyans are still fighting in the Gulf of Sidra. Everyone is jittery. The Italians are almost apoplectic, as this is unfolding right in their own backyard. The French are playing coy, which doesn't surprise me. Rumor has it that the French have cut a deal with various terror groups, including the Palestinians and the many-striped jihadists. France will leave them alone if they do not attack the French homeland. As a result, many of our terrorist enemies have started camping out in Paris, using it as their homebase for strikes elsewhere in Europe. That our erstwhile ally would do something like this shocked me at first. Then, over lunch at our desks one day, [Steve] Gleason mentioned that the French intelligence service has spent much of the seventies and eighties engaged in economic espionage against us. They've done plenty of black-bag jobs - breaking and entering - and eavesdropping in an effort to give the likes of Airbus a leg up over Boeing. Hearing things like that quickly knocks the naïveté out of young agents like me."
--- Quote from the book Ghost: The Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent, by Fred Burton.
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