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，美國國務卿亨利?斯廷森(Henry Stimson)關閉了國務院的密碼破譯處，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，戰時的戰略情報局(Office of Strategic Services)演變為中央情報局(CIA)。如今，美國有16個機構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)。
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