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From: john@mplvax.nosc.MIL (John McInerney)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Spycatcher
Message-ID: <700@mplvax.nosc.MIL>
Date: 31 Dec 87 18:07:17 GMT
References: <22340@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: john@mplvax.nosc.mil.UUCP (John McInerney)
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In article <22340@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>I am going through the book "Spycatcher". It seems like
>a good book, and cleared up a few things I wasn't informed
>about. Can anyone comment on its accuracy?
>
>Thanks,
>
>       -Tom
>	tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu


I can not comment too much about the accuracy (except for the efforts
I know that British Intelligence made to stop the printing of the
book).  One comment on the book I had was that he had a lot of
unexplained terminology.  Like, what is MI5 and MI6?  I know that it
stands for Military Inteligence section 5 and 6 respectively, but what
is the difference between the two etc.  I thought that they
corresponded to the USA's CIA and FBI, but that really did not fit
well.  I know that the British GCHQ corresponds to our NSA and that
"vetting" is a security check/background investigation (the third
definition in my dictionary says that to vet is to subject to expert
evaluation or appraisal).  There were many other terms that I did not
know or could not derive from the book.  I guess that the author
figured that his readership would only be Brits.

-- 
				John McInerney
				john@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu