Comments on: How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field?

By: Grurray

Grurray — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:28:54 +0000

Agents aren’t free of blame either. As was seen in the Abu Omar case & the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, many are so full of themselves and the choreography of their operations that they ignore basic mindfulness that any two bit hood practices without thinking.

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 23:32:15 +0000

Also, if they weren’t sure, they could ask Alger Hiss or one of the thousands of agents like him.

By: Bomag

Bomag — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 16:31:33 +0000

My god, are/were we seemingly that obvious?

My faith in the government has been destroyed.

By: Dan Kurt

Dan Kurt — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 16:14:46 +0000

Great insight into how the USA does not play to win.

In a similar vein I learned that the US Military, apparently from the start, has never instituted in the selection of officers mechanisms to promote the most competent instead it has relied on the fitness report: please the superior officer who writes up that report. No objective standards, no testing of knowledge, no forgiveness for failure hence institutional timidity and we wonder why our military brass appears to be less than au fait.

So too our foreign service who have rubber-stamped the Iran Deal and blew the “peace” in Iraq after the fall of Saddam.

By: Coyote

Coyote — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 15:37:24 +0000

Funny stuff. Interesting how our spies suffered at the hands of bean counters. Hmm… sort of like our astronauts. Merchant’s gonna cut them corners. Hope you are not standing on one.