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Comment · 7 years ago
Location: New York City (NYC), New York (Manhattan)
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Email: adam at heller.photoComment · 7 years ago
(Just FYI I don't know if I could put a source / article on this, but this information was information that Robert Hanssen allegedly leaked to the Russians [Aldrich Ames also leaked similar things and a lot of the same HUMINT sources]. I initially read this in a Robert Hanssen non-fic book a while ago)
Apparently, during the construction of the embassy in (edit: Moscow) -East Berlin-, the construction company (surely at the direction of the KGB / GRU) placed passive bugs in the concrete (they only transmit when blasted with microwaves at the right frequency and would avoid counter-intel sweeps unless active). They built the buildings almost pre-fab style, laying the concrete out then assembiling it. It's then when the bugs were placed.
The west eventually learned about this, if I recall correctly, it was from a Russian defector by the codename of Mother.
It was called Operation Top Hat (that's where i'd start googiling). The US knew the embassy in (edit: Moscow) -East Berlin- was bugged on the first 3 floors by the Russians as well as having secret hollow support columns with clandestine access to the building. The decision was made to just not use the first 3 floors of the embassy for classified discussion. The remaining floors were built by Americans and undoubtedly under FBI/OGA watch.
IIRC there was also a network of tunnels leading from the embassy in West Berlin to under the wall to listening posts.
Edit: my memory is shot apparently. It was in Moscow, not Berlin. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/private-tour-cias-inc... https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-29-mn-177-st...
I think i screwed up another thing Hanssen revealed and that was a tunnel from West Berlin to East Berlin and under the Soviet embassy.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hopefully the week field is longer than 10 bits. That was a headache.
Comment · 9 years ago
I was at this event. Marilee was seated directly in front of my girlfriend and I (the stage / panel and the back of Marilee's head pictured: https://imgur.com/a/GEapw). The interruptions were real. I was one of the men in Marilee's facebook post making comments about the sexism. Immediately following Marilee's comment, the entire place erupted with applause. On the way out, several people asked my GF if she was the one who made the comment, with one person saying "That was the most important thing to happen here today".
Comment · 9 years ago
Prior US Army bomb technician checking in.
Also look at State Secrets: An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program by Vil S Mirzayanov, Novichok is covered there as well. ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1432725661/ref=oh_aui_sear... nonref)
Comment · 9 years ago
Drop your contact info in your profile please!
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm an ex Army bomb technician, let me help you.
You know WMDs were found in Iraq right? ..Unless we're not calling stockpiled chemical weapons WMDs anymore.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleea...
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm a pixel xl 128 owner too. As long as we're going down this route, has anyone else noticed weird 'refresh' lines drawing over top of images? They appear very briefly and very faintly (and only in chrome as far as I've noticed, may be a chrome(ium) bug).
Comment · 10 years ago
+1. When did we start accepting alt-right blogs on HN?
Comment · 10 years ago
I was/(am?) a bomb tech, I didn't dig up a damn thing, we were too highly valued of an asset..And only having a small handful of us to support an entire theater of war makes us exceedingly rare.
Got called out on quite a few. One in particular was a dude out at a COP in the middle of no where Farah, taking a piss next to a Hesco, looked up and saw a mine poking out of the barrier. Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. It's not surprising.
Comment · 10 years ago
Farah (2009 - 2010) EOD tech reporting in. We were almost all Hesco too. Oddly, we found a lot of PMNs[0] in our Hescos.
Comment · 10 years ago
Any thoughts on slang / secdb? or are you at a lower level? (i see low latency, don't think they're that close to the metal)
...or not at that firm? email's in my profile. Reach out if you all are looking.
Comment · 10 years ago
30, M, NYC, 120k. Firmware (C++), and some Java.
I just realized how bad I'm getting boned.
Comment · 10 years ago
He paid me $500 for a two letter .io I owned. I hope you got market value!
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