Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "The United States Dominates Signal Intelligence || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. My dad was a cryptanalyst in the Korean War. The high-security intelligence complex where he worked was color-coded, everyone wore photo-ID and the color of your ID determined which buildings you were allowed to enter, and the guards had orders to carefully check IDs every time you entered a building. When my dad first arrived, during the orientation, the officer in charge (General? Colonel? I don't know what his rank was) emphasized the importance of security and encouraged new arrivals to undertake personal projects to improve security on their own initiative. Well, my dad was buddies with the guy in charge of making the photo-IDs (using a primitive laminating machine), and he got this guy to make him an ID with a photo of Stalin! And my dad wore this ID and went in and out of buildings for MORE THAN SIX MONTHS before a guard noticed. (Guard: "Wait a minnit, you don't have a mustash!" --Dad: "Well, I shaved it off!" --Guard: "Lemme see that!") So dad went before the disciplinary committee, and said "The [Guy-In-Charge] said to undertake personal security-projects, and that's what this was, and I'd say the security here needs some work!" We asked Dad several times whether that was a true story. He always confirmed that it was.
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