[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice

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On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 17:10 +0200, Paul Sture wrote:
> > Patrick Beesley says it best in his book "Very Special Intelligence
> -
> > Admiralty's Operational Centre, 1939-1945", one of the best books
> ever
> > written. In it he details how the RN "pinched" an Enigma from the
> > Germans and how annoyed the Admiralty were when the Americans got in
> on
> > the act.
> 
> Yes there was and still is a lot of rivalry between the US and British
> forces.   A tale I heard during the Russian occupation of Afgahnistan
> was that a Russian helicopter had been captured and US and British
> officials had a meeting to decide who got to take it apart.  I think
> the US won that round, but right at the end of the meeting the British
> said "Oh, you might find this helpful", dropping a full set of
> blueprints for the helicopter onto the table :-) 

Yeah, we're good at that ;-)
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