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on Thursday December 28 2017, @11:05AM
from the professor-snape-would-be-proud dept.
from the professor-snape-would-be-proud dept.
This is the first of a three-part series based on never-before-published training manuals for the KGB, the Soviet intelligence organization that Vladimir Putin served as an operative, and that shaped his view of the world. Its veterans still make up an important part of now-Russian President Vladimir Putin's power base. All were trained in the same dark arts, and these primers in tradecraft are essential to an understanding of the way they think and the way they operate.
Source : Revealed: The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies
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(Score: 5, Informative) by looorg on Thursday December 28 2017, @12:27PM (3 children)
Secret KGB Manual ... sure. Problem is that unless you actually read russian you are sort of out of luck. There is no proper english translation. Which isn't all that odd, they are not part of the whole block of the world that care about translations -- certainly not documents of that kind. But it is a problem, there is probably a lot of interesting books, science and research that are locked behind the language barrier. We like to think that english will be enough, but you really are missing out. There is a lot of texts that just never make it past the original language, or they just really lose a lot in the eventual translation.
I only had a quick read of the article and as far as I can see there is no mention of where this "secret manual" comes from, or how it reached the west I should say, or how it got into the hands of the dailybeast.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @02:00PM
of modern science, you need Russia, Chinese, Japanese, English (possibly both English and American dialects due to inconsistencies), German, Latin, and possibly one or more of the Romance languages on top of all this. And that is ignoring that other bodies of work may be in Polish, Hungarian, Korean, or even less popular languages.
And even among these, deciding which are important to your studies requires knowing what bodies of research you are interested in, and what authors published in what languages.
Non trivial to say the least.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @02:08PM
Let me paraphrase:
Step 1) Give moneys
Step 2) Give sex
Step 3) ????
Step 4) прибыль
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Kromagv0 on Thursday December 28 2017, @02:47PM
Actually the US had at one point a fairly extensive program to translate scientific papers professionally out of eastern block countries. I don't know if it is still going on but I would imagine that it likely is. I know this because my father-in-law use to do this work on the side in the late 70s and 80s. None of it was classified work but it wouldn't surprise me if some of what he did was fed into classified work by the government so that they could better translate classified technical material better. He was a PhD holding physicist who worked in semiconductor design (analogue signal pre-amp design in private sector) and is fluent in Russian as that was the language he chose to learn in college.
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