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2016-02-01 Government

'Eyewash': How the CIA deceives its own workforce about operations

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-01 04:49|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Another Hillary email defense strategy.

Posted by Airandee 2016-02-01 06:30|| 2016-02-01 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Carnary. Place a provocative paragraph that would appeal to the NYT in a document. Each numbered and tracked document uses slightly different words so that when it appears in print (or an intercepted communication) it can be traced back to a specific numbered copy and its signature list. Ho hum.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-01 06:45|| 2016-02-01 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Sven, Tom Clancy described that technique in detail in one of his early books. Seems like it would work.

Posted by AlanC 2016-02-01 07:27|| 2016-02-01 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Tom didn't make that up and that is not where I learned of it....

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-01 07:39|| 2016-02-01 07:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Nope, not Clancy's idea but he wrote about it about 30 years ago, just trying to point out how old the idea is.

Posted by AlanC 2016-02-01 09:34|| 2016-02-01 09:34|| Front Page Top

#6 I may or may not have once been given a numbered document whose 3rd paragraph was mighty strange. I may or may not have asked a colleague about it who looked at his numbered document and we may or may not have noticed that a few words were different.

The old tricks are the best tricks. Using it to fool Congress would be an interesting twist. Kind of like the seven Potters.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-01 10:20|| 2016-02-01 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Careful Sven, you may yet have an appointment with the box. :-)

Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-01 11:16|| 2016-02-01 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Careful Sven Sectumsempra cuts both ways.

Posted by AlanC 2016-02-01 11:47|| 2016-02-01 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 the practice is known by the term "eyewash."

One time called 'tease feeders'

Posted by Skidmark 2016-02-01 15:03|| 2016-02-01 15:03|| Front Page Top

#10 What better way to keep the leaks down than to circulate false info on a high value operation.

Given as how political the CIA has become, misinforming the masses could be a good way to keep the real stuff off the front page of the NYT.

Maybe this is supposed to be a red herring for the NYT.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2016-02-01 21:22|| 2016-02-01 21:22|| Front Page Top

#11 CIA can't do that, IBM patented it.

I believe you can patent a ham sandwich.

Posted by KBK 2016-02-01 22:26|| 2016-02-01 22:26|| Front Page Top

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