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1. ferros+hz[view] [source] 2020-08-08 17:46:57
>>scrps+(OP)
How covert is staring at someone’s shoes trying to identify slight variations?
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2. functi+2C[view] [source] 2020-08-08 18:05:57
>>ferros+hz
Well, don't stare at them. You know in advance that your contact will be walking down Merriweather Lane at 11:30am. If his shoes sport a single "X" near the bottom, that means the dead drop has the microfilm ready for pickup. If it doesn't have that "X", then try again next Tuesday.

If you see two X's in his lacing, the package is at the alternate drop site.

If he has 3 X patterns, you're burned! Make your way to the safehouse after losing any potential tails.

Glance quickly, agent, and keep moving.

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3. stordo+hJ[view] [source] 2020-08-08 19:06:58
>>functi+2C
This setup reminds me of operation PIMLICO:

> Every Tuesday, shortly after 7:00, a British MI6 officer would take a morning stroll at the Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow. He would pass outside a designated bakery at exactly 7:24 a.m. local time. If he saw Gordievsky standing outside the bakery holding a grocery bag, it meant that the double agent was requesting to be exfiltrated as a matter of urgency. Gordievsky would then have to wait outside the bakery until a second MI6 officer appeared, carrying a bag from the Harrods luxury department store in London. The man would also be carrying a Mars bar (a popular British candy bar) and would bite into it while passing right in front of Gordievsky. That would be a message to him that his request to be exfiltrated had been received.

https://intelnews.org/tag/operation-pimlico/

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4. SergeA+Ad1[view] [source] 2020-08-08 23:31:11
>>stordo+hJ
Just read the same in Wikipedia. This is extremely strange. Harrods bag and Mars candy in 1985 Moscow would be a telltale the size of Kremlin tower. Kutuzovsky avenue was a KGB owned turf, lots of Communist apparatchik lived there, including late Secretary General Brezhnev.

It reminds me a joke about Soviet spy arriving in Berlin and caughting stares from everyone around. What's wrong with my cover? Is something gives me out? Maybe it is a parachute? Or AK-47? Ah, it should be blue Slavic eyes! And he wears a sunglasses just in case.

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5. rtkwe+mo1[view] [source] 2020-08-09 02:13:39
>>SergeA+Ad1
Not every agent has to conceal their national identity, the UK had an embassy in the USSR so there were plenty of known Brits wandering around for one to randomly walk through the area. Embassies are classic points to run out of because there's an official reason for being in the country and some protection against retribution.
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