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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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2016-04-30
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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 late 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 such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mails, is reshaping Donovan’s vocation as well.
The latest 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 this new world is Stratford, Inc., a private intelligence-analysis firm based in Austin, Texas. Stratford 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. Stratford. com.
Stratford 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 Stratford earns its fame.
Friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in Austin. Several of his staff members have military-intelli-gence backgrounds. He sees the firm’s outsider status as the key to its success. Stratford’s briefs don’t sound like the usual Washington back-and-forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong. Stratford, says Friedman, takes pride in its independent voice.
What makes Stratford the most successful spying firm is that _____.
选项
A、it can find relevant data from any comer of the world
B、it uses the Net in collecting and distributing information
C、it is able to distinguish the good information from the bad
D、it gets much feedback from the clients from all over the world
答案
C
解析
第4段末句中that指的就是使Stratford公司成功的秘诀。从该段倒数第2句的内容可以推断,that指的是Stratford公司具有分辨能力以提供可靠的信息,它不会像其他公司那样提供好坏参差的信息,由此可见,C为本题答案。
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