Wash Post: Operation Rubicon: How the CIA & BND de-encrypts and reads / watches all communications
The Crypto operation is relevant to modern espionage. Its reach and duration help to explain how the United States developed an insatiable appetite for global surveillance.
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
By Greg Miller Feb. 11, 2020
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machi…
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