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Ross Anderson (rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote:

: I believe I did mention in my original posting that the spooks did this 
: during the war. If they saw a telegram saying `father is deceased' they'd 
: change it to `father is dead'; if they got lucky, a dumb spy would query, 
: `is father dead or deceased?' (This is all in Kahn's book.)

Ton Clancy wrote about this in one of his books.  The CIA used it to discover
who had leaked what to the press by generating slightly different memos and
distributing them.  Each memo was slightly different, and no two were alike.
They were written in such a way that they all said the same, yet a quote
taken from one would immediately identify which copy was leaked.
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