GBPPR 'Zine
        
Issue #72    /    The Monthly Journal of the American Hacker    /    April 2010

"'When the battery dies, the operation dies,' became a mantra of OTS [Office of Technical Services].  As transistors delivered improved performance, battery technology lagged behind, becoming the weak link in audio operations.  'My wife often said I mumble in my sleep, but that I never said anything clearly,' remembered a senior TSD [Technical Services Division] manager from the early years.  'Except one night, apparently, I sat up and shouted, 'Those fucking batteries!'"

--- Quote from the book Spycraft: A Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda, by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton.

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