
How Project Star Gate Worked
Stuff You Should Know
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Calculators and Cold War Espionage
This chapter narrates a humorous CIA operation in 1980s South Africa involving a KGB agent's obsession with a seemingly innocuous calculator that turned out to be a shortwave radio. It also explores the history of a classified intelligence program, its funding, and the debates surrounding its eventual declassification.
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