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| 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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