SIGINT in the novels of John Le Carré (Cryptolog, magazine de la #NSA, 1992)
▻https://cryptome.org/2016/12/le-carre-sigint.pdf
#histoire #surveillance #espionnage #littérature ; où l’on parle de Simplicissimus
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oui, c’est mieux sans l’arobace, puisqu’il s’agit de l’original (en gothique, mais avec une petite addition au titre : le roughly n’a rien à y faire…)
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Since Ie Carre’s writings and public pronouncements (whether because of ignorance, discretion, or censorship) don’t appear to pose any threat to SIGINT sources and methods, does it matter to US what he writes? It matters because it adds to a public mystique about HUMINT that has a real (although intangible) impact on the way the Intelligence Community is perceived both by the public and by the rest of the government.
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In the final analysis, we’re obviously better off that a writer as widely read as Ie Carré doesn’t write accurately about SIGINT.
But it is galling to know that his books and public comments make marginally more difficult the task of ensuring that resources are allocated within the Intelligence Community on the basis of real contributions instead of on the basis of myth and mystique. It is also ironic that the CIA would benefit from all this in even a small way, since Ie Carré has made his distaste for that organisation so obvious.
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