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Espionage history: everything you wanted to know

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What's Your Favorite Sub Committee of Government?

i guess we just don't know what we don't know, which is a tantalizing possibility. What's your favorite sub committee of government? Well, my favorite sub committee was a joint intelligence committee sub committee created in the late 19 forties. This was a sub committee designed to look at carrier pigeons. And this was designed sangino, can we set up a network within the carrier pigeons that can carry secret messages strapped to their legs if war comes? It existed for a few yars, nd they disappeared. Other than there have been various attempts, you know, not strictly by the intelligence community, but to make things like tiny, little drones,. Like a fly or

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