{"id":1334,"date":"2002-01-23T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2002-01-23T19:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2002-01-23T14:47:02","modified_gmt":"2002-01-23T19:47:02","slug":"everybody_surpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/23\/everybody_surpr.html","title":{"rendered":"Everybody surprised by this, raise your hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chinese are claiming that a Boeing 767 they use as a Presidential Plane (a la Air Force 1) turned out to be full of listening devices<\/a> after it came back from the US, where it had been sent for maintenance.<\/p>\n

Well, duh. I mean, if they didn’t find any, they’d probably blow the plane up or something, figuring that they didn’t find something even more super-secret. <\/p>\n

I’m presuming that the spy plane that was returned to us some months back was probably similarly embedded with monitoring devices. And I presume we cleaned them out. And no comment was necessary.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, US intelligence experts<\/a> are suggesting that the ease of finding the devices indicates it was probably not<\/i> US spy agencies. One suggestion is that the monitoring devices were actually put there by Chinese security, before the plane was sent to the US for refurbishment, to make sure the plane was not unduly tampered with.<\/p>\n

Of course, all this sort of double- and triple-think is just what intelligence agencies on both sides (not to mention from still other countries) enjoy engaging in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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