The most recent thing that I learned about was that the CIA secretly worked with Boris Hagelin when he formed Crypto AG in the 1950s to ensure that encryption devices sold to foreign countries were easy to break by American intelligence agencies. Then in the 1970s, the CIA secretly purchased Crypto AG and owned it until 2018.
Crypto AG sold devices to countries across South America, Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia. Basically, all of tge US’s adversaries aside from the USSR and China.
The most recent thing that I learned about was that the CIA secretly worked with Boris Hagelin when he formed Crypto AG in the 1950s to ensure that encryption devices sold to foreign countries were easy to break by American intelligence agencies. Then in the 1970s, the CIA secretly purchased Crypto AG and owned it until 2018.
Crypto AG sold devices to countries across South America, Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia. Basically, all of tge US’s adversaries aside from the USSR and China.