Gentlemen don’t read other gentlemen’s mail,” Henry Stimson, US secretary of state, sniffed in 1929 as he closed down his department’s code-cracking outfit. America did not have a national intelligence service until 1946, when the wartime Office of Strategic Services morphed into the Central Intelligence Agency. Today, the US has 16 agencies spying on literally everybody – including, apparently, the German chancellor.
1929年，美国国务卿亨利•斯廷森(Henry Stimson)关闭了国务院的密码破译处，他轻蔑地说道：“君子不读他人之信”。那时的美国没有国家情报部门，直至1946年，战时的战略情报局(Office of Strategic Services)演变为中央情报局(CIA)。如今，美国有16个机构对几乎所有人进行间谍活动，其中显然包括德国总理安格拉•默克尔(Angela Merkel)。
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