"His conduct was so circumspect that the rueful Czechs concluded that, unlike Ujszaszy, he had never been trained by the Hungarian intelligence service"
Still, they had hundreds of agents. Czech must have had as many in Germany and Hungary.
Many Germans living in Denmark joined the resistance after the invasion. After the war they were rounded up and handed over to Germany, which executed them immediately: they had betrayed their Fatherland.
Why does certain branches of hn commenters always seem like pedophiles? This post and all the answers reads like an ingrained pedophile league. You should change your writing patterns it's all so suspectable. Just a friendly non pedophile tip. Sick trucks.
This kind of worship of heinous warmongering is disturbing. Is HN really the audience for military-industrial agitprop designed to boost the CIA in the eyes of the general public?
It is, literally, one of the most evil organizations that was ever built.
Errr, sorry for asking, but what exactly in this story is boosting the CIA? This is a story about the Czechoslovak counter-intelligence and the Hungarian military intelligence network a decade before the CIA existed. No American of any kind makes an appearance.
HN is for articles that are intellectually interesting. Please don't take threads onto generic tangents and flamewars. Other CIA-related topics have had interesting discussion here.
Listen to President Donald Trump demand a $4 billion dollar bribe from child rapists to "turn a blind eye" on January 3, 2019. Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Trump is on a call from with Henry Porter and Gigi Hadid. See page 63. Bribe demand at 10:18am:
On January 18, 2019 at 8:31am (see page 8) Trump acknowledges the four billion dollar bribe and says: "Let's get it done and get to fucking some kids." Video link below:
In the build-up to WW2 the Hungarians had a spy network within Czechoslovakia that was completely compromised by a Hungarian colonel who was predictable and careless with how he distributed communications to them. It's really quite a decent read
These things are always carefully rewritten to try to soften the essential ugliness of the whole endeavor, but the effort never quite succeeds. Some of it must be to avoid distracting from the drama of the story, but the rest must, I think, be simply the habit of deception. Re-reading, carefully, we can find the chinks where the truth has been sealed off.
The most essential activity of spycraft, always and everywhere, is extortion. It may be in what we think is a good cause, but spycraft doesn't care. In this case, all these people executed or driven to suicide got there in service of protecting what was, in the end, a doomed republic, betrayed not by spies but by its own hope that appeasement might mean peace. They incidentally handed over to Germany all the armament built to defend themselves. Germany used Czech tanks, and probably no small number of Czech soldiery, to invade France.
I predict it will turn out, in the fullness of time, that the coroner who ruled Epstein's death was suicide was compelled to that conclusion, not by the facts, but by some threat, from somebody served by his death. No republic is defended by the compulsion, but the overwhelming majority of people taught the practice were taught in service of government. Once taught, they go on to a career of it, somewhere.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 59.1 ms ] threadSick burn on the Hungarians there
Many Germans living in Denmark joined the resistance after the invasion. After the war they were rounded up and handed over to Germany, which executed them immediately: they had betrayed their Fatherland.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9...
[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
It is, literally, one of the most evil organizations that was ever built.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From the context, must be Czecho-Slovak Republic. Wiki agrees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia
- Hussites - early protestant church (based in Prague) turned mercenary army after Vatican burned their leader at stake
- How trendy it was to be "Czech" before WWI, when part of the Austrian empire
- How silly was WWI from the czech point of view (Svejk)
- Legions in the White army in WWI
- How great it was during the first republic (1918-WWII)
- How bad it was during WWII, the Munich betrayal
- How bad/silly it was just after WWII
- How bad it was during the communist rule (1948-1989)
- How silly it was during the communist rule
- Another betrayal, by the Warsaw pact armies in August 1968
- How wild it was during the 90s
.. and most of those are pretty drained.
I googled the topic in czech and not much popped up.
Thanks for the link, it was a good read!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167331/
The movie is comedy making fun of communist Czechoslovakia in the late sixties.
Listen to President Donald Trump demand a $4 billion dollar bribe from child rapists to "turn a blind eye" on January 3, 2019. Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Trump is on a call from with Henry Porter and Gigi Hadid. See page 63. Bribe demand at 10:18am:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77...
On January 18, 2019 at 8:31am (see page 8) Trump acknowledges the four billion dollar bribe and says: "Let's get it done and get to fucking some kids." Video link below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVTcGq5Z9oOSAiOQcKYrmuK4Two...
This is the tip of the iceberg. PDF link below:
Full 84 page document [updated 22Oct]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ...
The most essential activity of spycraft, always and everywhere, is extortion. It may be in what we think is a good cause, but spycraft doesn't care. In this case, all these people executed or driven to suicide got there in service of protecting what was, in the end, a doomed republic, betrayed not by spies but by its own hope that appeasement might mean peace. They incidentally handed over to Germany all the armament built to defend themselves. Germany used Czech tanks, and probably no small number of Czech soldiery, to invade France.
I predict it will turn out, in the fullness of time, that the coroner who ruled Epstein's death was suicide was compelled to that conclusion, not by the facts, but by some threat, from somebody served by his death. No republic is defended by the compulsion, but the overwhelming majority of people taught the practice were taught in service of government. Once taught, they go on to a career of it, somewhere.