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by dventimihasura 635 days ago
"What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives."

https://youtu.be/lNrjAMV0HJk?si=Fbk3fE-Ufm3ACxgv&t=86

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Here's just some of what these "librarians, professors, and researchers" were up to:

https://www.npr.org/2014/11/05/361427276/how-thousands-of-na...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax