Re: US Navy could be crippled by software backdoors.

"Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com> wrote in message
news:130420062333355530%hcb@gettcomm.com...

> Even more specialized cases come, for example, when journalists are
> used as conduits and voluntarily enter the foreign policy process.
The
> best known such case is when the Soviets, during the Cuban Missile
> Crisis, approached newsman John Scali and asked him to convey a
Soviet
> proposal. Scali did so, kept secrecy, and recused himself from any
> news role during the crisis, until released to tell his story. As I
> leave the DC area, I hope the little signs are still at the Yenching
> Restaurant on upper Connecticut Avenue, where Scali and the Soviets
> met.
>
> No, they don't say "You think the Szechuan hot dishes are nuclear
hot?
> Let us tell you about nuclear..."

Howard, I wish you had suggested this when we went to dinner that
Sunday evening in Washington, I would easily have been swayed from my
suggestion of Indian food by its historical significance.

I hope cities where significant incidents happened in the Cold War
begin to recognize the specific locations as historic sites. I imagine
Helsinki and London would have a few. Ottawa made the drab little
apartment at 511 Somerset St. W. and the small park on Nanny Goat Hill
a historic site over the protestations of the Department of Foreign
Affairs who did not want relations with the Russians queered. It was
from that park that the RCMP carried out a surveillance op of Igor
Gouzenko's home during his defection (by posing as rubbies).

-- 
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)
[plaintext to recognize the specific locations as historic sites. I imagine]