The largest sting operation you’ve never heard of

The Australian Federal Police arrest a suspect as part of a multinational operation using an encrypted messaging app.

2024-07-16  672  中等

IN JUNE 1970 the CIA did something audacious. In partnership with the BND, Germany’s spy agency, it secretly purchased Crypto AG, a Swiss firm that was then the world’s leading purveyor of cipher machines. The devices were used by over 120 countries to encrypt sensitive diplomatic and military communications. For almost 50 years America, having subtly rigged the machines, could read many of those messages. “It was the intelligence coup of the century,” boasted a CIA report.

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