Another wiretap enabled authorities to thwart Chicago's "El Rukns street gang" from a Libyan government-sponsored attempt to shoot down a U.S. commercial airliner with a military weapons system.
Uu> They find these all the time through other mechanisms.
This episode was hilarious. An imprisoned El Rukun was conducting gang
business via jailhouse payphone. One chuckly FBI agent was "decoding"
the simple slang-code by which the goons communicated. After _three
months_ he figured out enough of the code to bring an indictment. Some
of the more amusing of these sophisticated subterfuges:
Peanut = Jimmy Carter
Hollywood = Ronald Reagan
Roman = Policeman
Change = Kill
Our Friend = Qadaffi
Long Demonstration = Shotgun
It's interesting to note the length of time required for this "plaintext"
to be decoded in an urgent matter of national security.
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. M.
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