Comments by "" (@EbenBransome) on "The UK Just Intercepted Russian Bombers - I Intercepted Their Radios!" video.

  1. According to a former GCHQ guy I knew, now dead, back in the 1950s the Russians used to communicate en clair, and he and his colleagues were out there listening to them in the desert with RAF cover in cause they were caught. He said after a bit they knew quite a bit about the private lives of some of the Russians, picked up some Russian jokes, and decided they were "just like us". After a few years he got bored, declined promotion to a desk job, and was found a rather well paid job in a government-friendly organisation. He didn't visit Russia till the Yeltsin era on a tour, accidentally came out with some fluent colloquial Russian in front of the tour guide, and was thereafter regarded with great suspicion and none of the Russians would talk to him. Old habits died hard.
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  2.  @josekanucee1428  He was well paid for it.
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