In 1944 Manhattan Project still thought its counter-intell agents had stopped Soviet spies. Ha. @wellerstein http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2014/09/atom-bomb-espionage/ …
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@wellerstein But they weren't stupid, right? I mean, they were smart people?
@AnnFinkbeiner They weren't stupid, they just didn't have a clue how to spot moles. They were mostly worried about leaks and outside agents.
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@wellerstein Ah. In-house guys going bad or bad guys sneaking in-house, not in-house bad guys. Easy for me to say. -
@AnnFinkbeiner Exactly. All of the serious spies were quiet moles, whereas they were looking for outside Communists trying to break in.
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