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Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in World War
Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in World War
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2017-04-21
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Wild Bill Donovan would have loved the Internet. The American spymaster who built the Office of Strategic Services in World War II and later laid the roots for the CIA was fascinated with information. Donovan believed in using whatever tools came to hand in the "great game" of espionage-spying as a "profession". These days the Net, which has already remade pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping Donovan’s vocation as well.
The last revolution isn’t simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemen’s e-mail. That kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades. In the past three or four years, the world wide web has given birth to a whole industry of point and click spying. The spooks call it "open source intelligence", and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential. In 1995, the CIA held a contest to see who could compile the most data about Burundi. The winner, by a large margin, was a tiny Virginia company called Open Source Solutions, whose clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world.
Among the firms making the biggest splash in the new world is Straitford, Inc. , a private intelligence analysis firm based in Austin, Texas. Straitford makes money by selling the results of spying(covering nations from Chile to Russia)to corporations like energy services firm McDermott International. Many of its predictions are available online at www. Straitford. com. Straiford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymaster’s dream. Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine. "As soon as that report runs, we’ll suddenly get 500 new Internet sign ups from Ukraine," says Friedman, a former political science professor. "And we’ll hear back from some of them. " Open source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. That’s where Straitford earns its keep.
Friedman relies on a lean staff in Austin. Several of his staff members have military intelligence backgrounds. He sees the firms, outsider status as the key to its success. Straitford’s briefs don’t sound like the usual Washington back and forth, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong. Straitford, says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice.
Donovan’s story is mentioned in the text to ______.
选项
A、introduce the topic of online spying
B、show how he fought for the US
C、give an episode of the information war
D、honor his unique services to the CIA
答案
A
解析
本题是推断题。题干要求考生判断提到多诺万的故事在全文中起什么作用,即识别作者的写作意图。本文只在第1段提到比尔·多诺万,其余部分讨论的都是情报工作在互联网时代的巨大变化,以及它面临的机会和挑战。文章以司特雷福公司为例去说明互联网为谍报工作提供了巨大的可能性,因此文章的中心议题是情报工作和互联网的关系。多诺万作为一个大间谍只是为文章展开讨论前提供了一个引子,因此A选项“为网上谍报这个话题提供开头”为正确答案。B选项“展示多诺万是如何为美国效力的”、C选项“提供信息战的一个片段”和D选项“表彰他为中情局所做的杰出贡献”可能都与多诺万的生平事迹有关,但是与文章主题无关,因此都不正确。
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