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In South America many of the governments that were using Crypto machines were engaged in assassination campaigns.

I mean, they're using Crypto machines, which suggests that the United States intelligence had a lot of insight into what was happening.

To me, the history of the Crypto operation helps to explain how U.S. spy agencies became accustomed to, if not addicted to, global surveillance.

I mean, the United States came to expect that kind of penetration, that kind of global surveillance capability.

As Crypto became less able to deliver it, the United States turned to other ways to replace that.

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