Gentlemen don’t read other gentlemen’s mail,” Henry Stimson, US secretary of state, sniffed in 1929 as he closed down his department’s code-cracking outfit. America did not have a national intelligence service until 1946, when the wartime Office of Strategic Services morphed into the Central Intelligence Agency. Today, the US has 16 agencies spying on literally everybody – including, apparently, the German chancellor.
1929年,美國國務(wù)卿亨利?斯廷森(Henry Stimson)關(guān)閉了國務(wù)院的密碼破譯處,他輕蔑地說道:“君子不讀他人之信”。那時的美國沒有國家情報部門,直至1946年,戰(zhàn)時的戰(zhàn)略情報局(Office of Strategic Services)演變?yōu)橹醒肭閳缶?CIA)。如今,美國有16個機構(gòu)對幾乎所有人進行間諜活動,其中顯然包括德國總理安格拉?默克爾(Angela Merkel)。