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A lot of that shit, you can get from open source media in far more detail than our intelligence community gets from its classified sources.
A good juicy one: You're a spy and I'm a spy. You're working for me and we've still got commies running around. I task you to get me the maximum range of the rocket-assisted projectile for the Soviet 2S7 self-propelled field gun. You could spend thousands of dollars to try to get the sergeant major of the 34th Artillery Division to steal you the technical manual for that system...or you could pull out your copy of Jane's Armour and Artillery and turn to "Self-Propelled Artillery--Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" which would tell you that a 2S7 firing RAP rounds has a maximum range of 50km.
This is actually a famous war story: The Soviets introduced the MT-LB "multipurpose armored vehicle" in, probably, 1969. This is a great little vehicle because it is very reliable, plus it is very convertible. They mount quite a few other systems on this chassis, use it as an ambulance, make a mobile repair shop out of it...oh, and they can also fight out of it, but the fighting units don't want it; they'd rather have BMPs, BMDs or BTRs. Anyway, the CIA saw this thing on an aerial photo in 1971 and wanted to find out all they could about it. They spent something like five million dollars hiring spies, using every form of reconnaissance known to man, and still couldn't learn all they wanted to know about it. So they called the British MI-5 and asked them what they knew. "It's in Jane's Weapon Systems."
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