Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
Still curious as to why you are linking Belgium to the OPs response about Vienna (non embassy RTF teams not-withstanding).
Washington, Paris, The Hague, Brussels, Vienna, Prague, Moscow, and Geneva, have long been historically linked in the political-miltary context,
LUH ?
Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
What years were you an Officer there? I was an officer at NATO through last year and things have changed a bit (much actually) in just the last 5 years.
93/95 C3A attached. As for Austria, I was referencing separate agency SIGINT OPS
and has no "official" connection to embassy nor to NATO per se. At the time both Bush Sr and Clinton were very concerned with Eastern Europe, particularly BiH. Enuf said, methinks.
Last week February-first week March should prove interesting to FT'ers as we await a "the sky (193) is falling scenario," which might disrupt air travel by grounding everything... thoughts?
Back to topic:
Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
If the spotnik confused Austria and Germany he is a feckless hack.
The spotniks never find me it is sad. I want to play too
Maybe you need to fly out from IAD more with some of our other good friends and let "The Crow" peck his way to you.
Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
But CNN has video online of a new colour coded boarding system that Kip is introducing for various levels of travel experiance-that should be fun.
Dumb leading the dumber.
TSAs can't read let alone distinguish from one color to another.
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1995 - NSA used its Echelon eavesdrop system to defend against foreign economic espionage, helping prevent foreign countries from spying on U.S. corporations. A tariff on Japanese luxury cars was to go into effect June 28, but Geneva conference sought to avoid the tariff. NSA team went to Geneva to help U.S. negotiator Mickey Kantor, provided intercepts of hotel telephone conversations by Toyota and Nissan executives.