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Back from trip

Posted by David Hardy · 21 June 2006 01:34 PM

Back from a grueling trip --18 hours on the plane or awaiting connections, in 2.5 days -- to Minneapolis to film Joe Olson for my documentary, and to Milwaukee to be filmed by JPFO for their upcoming documentary. Got to meet Aaron Zelman for the first time -- yup, he's a true believer!

Had an interesting experience while on the road... stopped outside a hotel and wound up chatting with a retired CIA employee. He had some great war stories. In DC, diplomatic cars have special diplomatic plates. The first two digits are a two-letter code for the country they were issued to. He told me that the Soviet Union's code was FC... which stood for "f___ing communist." This wasn't speculation -- they guy in the State Department in charge of assigning the codes was a retired Marine officer, and took pleasure in assigning the code to them.

He also mentioned there was a constant low-grade harrassment war between us and the Soviets. One day a Soviet diplomat/KGB went to incredible length to shake off his "tail" as he drove thru DC. Next morning he found all his tires slashed, a sort of "so there" message. Next day an American diplomat in Moscow found all his tires slashed, a message of "we can play that game, too." This sort of thing went on constantly.

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Eric | June 23, 2006 9:51 PM

Great story on the diplomatic maneuvers. Some years back during the Cold War itself, (say 20 years ago) I read an article on the guy in the state department who essentially managed the logistical details of the foreign embassies. It noted that once the Soviets had been slow-rolling needed repairs to our diplomats' living quarters in Moscow, so this guy took some of the local Soviet diplos on a tour of some of DC's lesser-maintained neighborhoods. He informed them that if our quarters in Moscow didn't get brought up to snuff soon, he would be moving the Soviets to these neighborhoods. Things got fixed in Moscow.

Little anecdotes keep me hoping that our state department hasn't totally lost its marbles.

elb