espionage
The practice of spying; a way to gather intelligence.
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espionageThe practice of spying; a way to gather intelligence. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Early during World War II, British intelligence officers eavesdropped on German radio transmissions, but because the messages were in an encrypted version of Morse code, the British couldn't understand the content. 3, 2001, he communicated with Iraqi intelligence officers, who called him by his code name and told him what to do. Months before Zarqawi was killed in a June 8 airstrike, "American military and intelligence officers in Iraq battled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the White House to 'degrade' the terrorist's dramatically inflated image, while Rumsfeld and the White House resisted, ultimately for 'domestic political reasons,' as a military source involved in this internal controversy told me," reported Sidney Blumenthal in the June 15 issue of Salon. |
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