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jeregenest and robotnik you'll especially like this:
OK, so the US used to maintain a base in Eritrea called Kagnew Station. It was a listening post back before satellites were readily available and aside from listening in on conversations it also tracked Soviet rocket launches.
The US was leasing the site from Ethiopia who basically owned Eritrea at the time. Ethiopia needed more money and weapons to fight the Eritrean rebels. They'd been begging the US for more and more aid and no matter how much they got, it was never enough. The US was getting fed up with it and relations were sour.
Suddenly, Ethiopia said "Screw you, we're going to go with the Soviets. You have four days to pack up and get out". They mentioned this on a Saturday to make the evacuation that much more difficult.
Keith Wauchope is the guy in charge. He has to work out a plan to remove or destroy everything at Kagnew station in four days (six after some international pressure comes to bear). Anything left behind will be scrutinized by the Soviets.
He gets a plan worked out. He gets his people going and as he's clearing everything out, he mentions something brilliant:
"When we leaft the consulate, we placed the instructions to the game Dungeons and Dragons amongst the procedural papers, just to sow confusion."
Considering this was the 1977 edition of D&D the confusion must have been considerable. :)
later
Tom
jeregenest and robotnik you'll especially like this:OK, so the US used to maintain a base in Eritrea called Kagnew Station. It was a listening post back before satellites were readily available and aside from listening in on conversations it also tracked Soviet rocket launches.
The US was leasing the site from Ethiopia who basically owned Eritrea at the time. Ethiopia needed more money and weapons to fight the Eritrean rebels. They'd been begging the US for more and more aid and no matter how much they got, it was never enough. The US was getting fed up with it and relations were sour.
Suddenly, Ethiopia said "Screw you, we're going to go with the Soviets. You have four days to pack up and get out". They mentioned this on a Saturday to make the evacuation that much more difficult.
Keith Wauchope is the guy in charge. He has to work out a plan to remove or destroy everything at Kagnew station in four days (six after some international pressure comes to bear). Anything left behind will be scrutinized by the Soviets.
He gets a plan worked out. He gets his people going and as he's clearing everything out, he mentions something brilliant:
"When we leaft the consulate, we placed the instructions to the game Dungeons and Dragons amongst the procedural papers, just to sow confusion."
Considering this was the 1977 edition of D&D the confusion must have been considerable. :)
later
Tom
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