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jandrese
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The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infilt...
Might make a difference if those pennies can't be tracked back to the government.
malandrew
on Oct 4, 2018
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Yup. This would be the modern equivalent of Air America and other schemes by the CIA to raise money to operate by involving themselves in illegal activity like the drug trade.
jessaustin
on Oct 4, 2018
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One would consider those activities to have taken place in "modern" times as well...
acct1771
on Oct 5, 2018
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You're not suggesting the CIA is out of the drug business...are you?
jandrese
on Oct 7, 2018
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Iran/Contra got the CIA into a lot of hot water with Congress. They had some pretty stringent restrictions put in place as a result.
https://www.csmonitor.com/1987/1113/aintel.html
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