• oliveoil [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      5 days ago

      Yea usually we mean CIA or Mossad to mean generally imperial intelligence.

      I think more than half of the shit we say is CIA is actually some other US Intel agency.

      But does that level of granularity matter? It’s not like we have capabilities to perform any sort of countermeasures here.

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      I mean, besides that Mossad is the Top and CIA is the bottom? CIA has atrophied alot since the end of the cold war where as Mossad is still in top shape and has a much higher focus on undercover human assets.

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        5 days ago

        I mean, besides that Mossad is the Top and CIA is the bottom?

        If anything, this is probably backward, though I don’t think “top and bottom” is a particularly good analogy either way.

        CIA has atrophied alot since the end of the cold war where as Mossad is still in top shape and has a much higher focus on undercover human assets.

        This I think is probably true, though.

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          I don’t think “top and bottom” is a particularly good analogy either way

          Dominant and submissive? Israel does what they want, the US does what they’re told in this relationship.