MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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An Economic Primer for Spies
By EmmaZahn on Sat, 07/06/2013 - 11:50am |Listening in on BlackBerry communications by world leaders at a Group of 20 summit meeting, as the British did in April 2009, does not seem like a great way to build international trust and economic cooperation. Writing up the operation in PowerPoint and bragging about it in writing – such documents always leak — was pure Monty Python.
This week, disclosures suggest the American intelligence services may be up to broadly similar tricks – with reports that the United States has bugged the communications of European diplomats stationed in Washington. The Europeans are America’s allies, but also its competitors in important markets around the world. The goal seems to involve capturing some kind of economic secrets.
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Finally got to reading this. It sounds to me like they are economists who are clueless about world diplomacy and maybe just clueless about negotiations of any kind. They say The goal seems to involve capturing some kind of economic secrets. I think: um no, the goal clearly would seem to be to get an upper hand at the negotiating at these meetings by knowing what the others were planning to say, how what they really thought might differ, where they were willing to change their mind, where they might be fudging or bluffing, etc. I also think: geez, they must think somebody is in charge at these meetings--like a King of the World?- and can tell everyone else what to do and that everyone else will obey.
by artappraiser on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 4:02am
by EmmaZahn on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 9:39am
Actually it is useful to remind that intelligence doesn't always mean the account number to a bank or a license plate - it can be understanding how a group works, any tensions or background info, anything to exploit, to get an edge, who's the decider, who are influencers, who just suck it up and do as they're told (Alberto Gonzales?)
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 11:13am
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by EmmaZahn on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 12:23pm
You're new to PGP, aren't you?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 12:40pm
No idea what that is. Just thought I would make it easier on NSA to read. Not even sure it worked outside the little converter program I found online. :)
by EmmaZahn on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 12:44pm
Ah - PGP is the encryption & verification method where you often have a funny long series of characters as your "public key". But not quite all 1'sies & 0'sies.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 3:21pm
Duh.
There are some serious money wars afoot. Governments everywhere are trying to figure out how to regain control of their finances from their own financial sectors most of whom have already gone global and who will happily play against their own central bank if it is profitable enough.
Of course they would spy on G20.
by EmmaZahn on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 12:43pm