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How to Turn Off WikiLeaks

Monday, November 29, 2010

The spies who are most in danger are known as "NOCs" for "No Official Cover."
 
The more common type of spy has "official cover."  And what is official cover?  Diplomats, i.e. STATE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES.
 
And much of that "official cover" spying is going to happen at the U.N.  Every country knows it.
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You're misinforme­d, Jeff.

Attaches assigned to embassies are often covers for covert activity, for example  cultural or military attaches.  But they're not part of the regular diplomatic corps.  

Diplomatic corps personnel should be insulated from espionage activities and to have that barrier breached is very troubling.  

Other nations do have spies in their diplomatic delegation­s to the UN, and they presume everyone else does the same thing.  BUT WE DON'T.  Or at least we haven't (not before the Bush administra­tion and John Bolton, at least).  
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