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Re:x3 US National Security

by Sweeper (Pilgrim)
on Jan 22, 2002 at 00:59 UTC ( [id://140489]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: US National Security
in thread US National Security

Occasionally some idiot will put classified information on an unclassified workstation, but this does not happen very often and when it happens that person is punished accordingly.

It happened at least once. Do you know Operation Chastise, the destruction of Ruhr water dams on 16/17 May 1942? This operation was the brainchild of Barnes Wallis, a British engineer. In March 1941, he had written a preliminary report, and had given a hundred copies to various people, including journalists. He even sent some copies to the still neutral United States where some German sympathiser could possibly read it.

His reasoning is that a widely distributed document would be considered by spies as an uninteresting document.

Source: The Dambusters Raid, John Sweetman, Arms and Armour, ISBN 1-85409-180-8 update corrected a few typos: "Rhur" -> "Ruhr", and "barrage" -> "dam" :-(

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