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<\/p>\nNeil Clark www.neilclark66.blogspot.com<\/p>\n
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The revelation that the CIA (and German Intelligence) was in secret control of the Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG highlights the hypocrisy of US \u2018security concerns\u2018 over the advance of Huawei and other firms.<\/i><\/p>\n
The very wise old saying that if you point one finger at someone there are three fingers pointing back at you, was classically illustrated by this week\u2019s bombshell revelations \u2014 published<\/a> in the Washington Post and on ZDF and SRF – that the CIA and BND (West Germany\u2019s secret service) secretly owned and controlled the Swiss cryptography company Crypto. The real owners of Crypto installed \u2018backdoor vulnerabilities\u2019 in its products which allowed the US and West Germany to eavesdrop on communications \u2014 from enemies and allies alike \u2014 which the senders believed had been successfully encrypted. We\u2019re talking here about top secret communications between leading government officials, spies, diplomats and military figures.<\/p>\n Just imagine that back in the 1970s or 80s you had claimed that the Crypto was a CIA front. You\u2019d have been dismissed as a \u2018crank conspiracy theorist, \u2019and\/or \u2018totally paranoid\u2018 by the gatekeepers of that time. But the rumours were true. Once again a \u2018conspiracy theory\u2019 has turned out to be not as barmy as once depicted. Truth again proved to be stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n How much intelligence was gathered via Crypto is quite staggering. As RT has reported: \u201cThroughout the 1980s \u2014 around 40% of all government transmissions analysed by the US National Security Agency (NSA) ran through Crypto\u2018s devices<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n What a neat little racket. Over 120 governments of the world, but not the former Soviet Union and Communist China who, to their great credit were distrustful, made use of Crypto\u2019s products. These governments, which included Iran, Libya, Argentina and Egypt were effectively paying the Americans and West Germans to spy on them!<\/p>\n The Germans bowed out of the operation in 1993, but for the next 25 years, the CIA kept it running. Which begs the question: what other US Intelligence fronts of the past and present don\u2019t we know about?<\/p>\n In her 1999 book Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders detailed how the CIA funded a whole range of publications and artistic enterprises often through<\/a> the \u2019Congress for Cultural Freedom\u2019.<\/p>\n Literary journals (who conveniently had a pop at communism) were funded by the CIA. Modern artists were funded by the CIA. Writers, poets and philosophers were funded by the CIA.<\/p>\n And under \u2018Operation Mockingbird\u2019 leading journalists were basically recruited to the agency.<\/p>\n According<\/a> to Carl Bernstein, the CIA had over 400 journalists working for them in the old Cold War.<\/p>\n \u201cIn many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America\u2019s leading news organizations,\u201d the American journalist writes.<\/p>\n The CIA\u2018s own records show that, by 1991, they had relationships with \u201cevery major wire service, newspaper, news weekly and television network in the country<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n Now we know they were even behind Crypto too!<\/p>\n Given the organisation\u2019s modus operandi, it is scarcely believable that the CIA doesn\u2019t have similar \u2018relationships\u2019 and control mechanisms working today. Why wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n Not only should the Crypto revelations make us more aware of the CIA\u2019s very wide reach, they should also make us see the American objections to the involvement of firms from China and Russia with developing telecommunications infrastructure and new technology in a completely different light.<\/p>\n The Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky, has seen its software banned from use on US government networks, while the Chinese giant Huawei has been hit with sanctions \u2014 and warnings given to other countries about letting it build their 5G networks.<\/p>\n Taking the moral high ground (as always), US officials have said<\/a> that Huawei could covertly access mobile-phone networks through \u2018back doors\u2019.<\/p>\n OMG! You mean like the US did with Crypto?<\/p>\n