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Re: Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Fri Jun 4 16:25:31 2004
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:39:38 -0400
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
At 5:42 PM -0700 6/3/04, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_06.html#000934
>>4. It's all a hoax and the NSA is reading the traffic some other
>>way, perhaps by bugging the Iranian embassy. In this case, the NSA might
>>actually want to have it spread around that they've broken the Iranian
>>codes since it makes them look extremely competent and there's a good
>>chance that the Iranians will change codes and then be confident that
>>their communications are secure.
I'll take door number four, Monty, with the "snitch" variant...
Either that, or it's just plain made up.
Cheers,
RAH
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