IN JUNE 1970 the CIA did something audacious. In partnership with the BND, Germany’s spy agency, it secretly purchased Crypto AG, a Swiss firm that was then the world’s leading purveyor of cipher machines.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
The devices were used by over 120 countries to encrypt sensitive diplomatic and military communications. For almost 50 years America, having subtly rigged the machines, could read many of those messages. “It was the intelligence coup of the century,” boasted a CIA report…CONTINUE READING>>
