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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (8791)2/5/2002 11:47:53 AM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
'See No Evil': How the C.I.A. Went to the Dogs nytimes.com

I thought you might appreciate this one, Carl. In the "nothing new under the sun" department, it turns out the great minds at the CIA were on the case in the pork department long before the local great minds picked up on that dubious train of thought.

For example, the time when ''the agency's skunk works had come up with the idea of filling a captured Soviet transport plane -- Soviet markings and all -- with live pigs and dropping them over Mecca, Islam's most holy city.'' The agency spymasters were hoping "to light the Middle East's fuse and direct the blast toward the Soviet Union.'' (Baer does not say whether this nutty scheme was ever carried out, but if it was, it fizzled.)

It would be interesting to know if the KGB ever had the reciprocal plan of dropping pigs out of an American plane over Jerusalem .
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