Tom Drake
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So, but I did go into their director of intelligence. And so I was working what you call national technical means, satellite, intercept, collection technology. So, and I was at a downlink site, the primary downlink site in which you processed all that.
So, but I did go into their director of intelligence. And so I was working what you call national technical means, satellite, intercept, collection technology. So, and I was at a downlink site, the primary downlink site in which you processed all that.
Oh yeah, of course.
Oh yeah, of course.
Oh yeah, of course.
Military background. That was partly why they were interested, right? Oh, so, so they reached out first? No, no, no.
Military background. That was partly why they were interested, right? Oh, so, so they reached out first? No, no, no.
Military background. That was partly why they were interested, right? Oh, so, so they reached out first? No, no, no.
But just to give you just a sense of the initial phase of it. Yeah. They give you an address. which was a nondescript motel. You knock on a door a certain number of times. There was basically a, there was a code. They opened the door and that's how it started. That was the first interview. Wow. Yep. Yeah.
But just to give you just a sense of the initial phase of it. Yeah. They give you an address. which was a nondescript motel. You knock on a door a certain number of times. There was basically a, there was a code. They opened the door and that's how it started. That was the first interview. Wow. Yep. Yeah.
But just to give you just a sense of the initial phase of it. Yeah. They give you an address. which was a nondescript motel. You knock on a door a certain number of times. There was basically a, there was a code. They opened the door and that's how it started. That was the first interview. Wow. Yep. Yeah.
Oh yeah.
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I mean, it is about as a true – think of – and, of course, I ended up experiencing this in a different way later when I was under electronic and physical surveillance when they decided that I was such a threat to the national security that we're going to have to charge him. But during the investigation, I was under all kinds of surveillance. Right. But just imagine an electron microscope.
I mean, it is about as a true – think of – and, of course, I ended up experiencing this in a different way later when I was under electronic and physical surveillance when they decided that I was such a threat to the national security that we're going to have to charge him. But during the investigation, I was under all kinds of surveillance. Right. But just imagine an electron microscope.
I mean, it is about as a true – think of – and, of course, I ended up experiencing this in a different way later when I was under electronic and physical surveillance when they decided that I was such a threat to the national security that we're going to have to charge him. But during the investigation, I was under all kinds of surveillance. Right. But just imagine an electron microscope.
being pointed at your life and anything you have ever done, any evidence at all of your entire, all of it, no matter who you met, where you worked, what you did, And then they get into your head.
being pointed at your life and anything you have ever done, any evidence at all of your entire, all of it, no matter who you met, where you worked, what you did, And then they get into your head.
being pointed at your life and anything you have ever done, any evidence at all of your entire, all of it, no matter who you met, where you worked, what you did, And then they get into your head.