"The CIA’s Monster Manual" Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 Sep 2014 4:21 p.m. PST |
"In 1982, the CIA's internal newsletter Studies in Intelligence introduced readers to a "collection of strange fauna in a corner of a sub-basement." The writer—whose identity the Agency redacted—called this zoo of fictional fauna the Bestiary of Intelligence Writing. The bestiary is a list of cliches the CIA's writers hate seeing in print. Nothing strange about that. What is odd is deciding to write about them by depicting them as wild animals, complete with illustrations and descriptions of mating habits. Think about that for a moment. Two CIA agents hated reading the same buzzwords over and over again enough to take the time to write and illustrate a special report depicting those buzzwords as monsters…"
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| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 27 Sep 2014 6:59 p.m. PST |
Our tax dollars at work :-) |
Chortle  | 27 Sep 2014 10:34 p.m. PST |
Our tax dollars at work :-) It could be worse. $5 USD billion was spent destabilising Ukraine. We would be better off locking them all up with crayons, colouring pens and paints. |
| Lion in the Stars | 28 Sep 2014 2:31 p.m. PST |
Our intelligence analysts trying to stay sane… or at least as close to sane as you can get when working for the spooks… |
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