[Spooks] and a book???

Fri, 7 Feb 2003 20:54:13 -0330

Hey spooksters; anyone familiar with CIA, Inc? It's by F.W. Rustmann, Jr.
who was with the CIA's Clandestine Service.
It's about espionage and business intelligence but he talks about more
general intelligence works and tricks of the trade; he happens to explain
how numbers broadcasts are used, with the example of a South Vietnamese
recruit who had to listen to regular SW broadcasts which "consisted of the
reading of groups of five numbers ...then later, using a system of false
subtraction and a miniaturized code book, he would decode and read his
message."

73s, Sue

Sue Hickey, Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada
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Fellow SPOOKster's:

Jumping in on this late, but...

Let's not forget Jonathan Demme's tribute to the '70's CB craze -- (also, I
believe, his directoral debut) the quirkily funny "Citizen's Band,"
retitled
"Handle With Care."  CB is the star of this movie, about a group of
strangers
who have relationships with each other via CB but don't meet until the end
of
the movie.

The funniest subplot involves a trucker who has a wife on each end of his
cross-country run.  They meet each other finally -- with hiliarious results!
The main character, played by "American Graffiti" alumnus Paul Le Mat (Candy
Clark, another one, is also in it) is a REACT monitor who rescues this same
trucker when he hears his distress call on channel 9.  He gets disgusted
with
all the non-emergency traffic he hears from newbie yahoos (including his own
girlfriend, who has taken on a sexy alter ego via CB), and by the end of the
movie, heads out with a baseball bat to "clean up the band," destroying
offending operator's equipment.

At the climax, all the previously anonymous CB'ers come out from behind
their
handles and fantasy identities to rescue him.  I think that's what
happens...it's been a long time since I've watched it!

And, of course, there's lots of CB action in those horrible "Smokey and the
Bandit" movies.

There was also a movie with John Travolta that came out a few years ago.  I
can't remember the title, but Travolta plays a man with a brain tumor that
for awhile gives him special powers.  Forrest Whitaker plays a fat, lonely,
painfully shy ham radio operator, shown with his rig a couple of
times...almost his only human contact.  Too bad one of the few movies to
feature a ham operator portrays him as a pathetic loser.  Not the way to
attract people to the hobby!

--Mary Villano

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