Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Fri Jun 4 15:39:38 EDT 2004


At 5:42 PM -0700 6/3/04, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_06.html#000934

>>4.  	It's all a hoax and the NSA is reading the traffic some other
>>way, perhaps by bugging the Iranian embassy. In this case, the NSA might
>>actually want to have it spread around that they've broken the Iranian
>>codes since it makes them look extremely competent and there's a good
>>chance that the Iranians will change codes and then be confident that
>>their communications are secure.


I'll take door number four, Monty, with the "snitch" variant...

Either that, or it's just plain made up.

Cheers,
RAH

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