"The Open-Source Spies of World War II" Topic
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| Tango01 | 03 Mar 2015 3:29 p.m. PST |
"The ubiquity of cell phones, cameras and the Internet has unleashed a bounty of open-source material for spies to understand the world. Today, American spies patrol web forums for shots of China's latest jet fighters or information about jihadis in the Middle East. Though the technology to hemorrhage data about yourself has made the job easier, it's by no means a new practice. For as long as we've had open sources, we've had open-source spies. And that was especially true during World War II, when the job of open-source intelligence analysis fell principally to the men and women of the Research and Analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency…"
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| John the OFM | 03 Mar 2015 9:29 p.m. PST |
In "The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century", Philip Knightley tells of a Soviet nuclear physicist, Georgy Flyorov, who was a reserve Air Force pilot. Called up in June 1941, he was shot down. Recovering from his wounds he perused the various physics journals he had not been able to keep up on while fighting the Fascist Scum, and noted that the British and Americans had suddenly ceased to publish anything on fission.
He wrote a letter to Stalin pointing out this conspicuous silence and suggesting… Well, what Einstein suggested to Roosevelt.
Stalin's reaction was "Why is this man flying airplanes at the Front?" Knightley also points out that there was only one genuine atomic "secret". That was that an atomic bomb was possible. All the rest was "simple" engineering.
the US could afford to spend the money to find out what did not work. Getting back to Flyorov, he was second on Kurchatov's team to develop the Soviet atomic bomb. Obviously, they could not afford the expense while fighting the Germans. After the war, they made up for that. SPI also alleges that one of the biggest subscribers to Strategy and Tactics magazine was the Soviet embassy.  |
| skippy0001 | 03 Mar 2015 9:43 p.m. PST |
I remember SPI was developing Firefight! game for the Army(modern tank combat). They were able to get all the data on the Soviet tanks but were told the US figures for the Army's tanks were classified(primarily armor thickness). They were in a quandary until one of the designers went into a Russian book shop in NYC/Queens?-somewhere. There he found a Soviet book on US and NATO tanks with all the data they were denied. Our whole hobby/TMP forum should be subsidized by the Government as one big Think Tank. |
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