textfiles-politics/regexConsp/diplomat.xml

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<p>     October 17, 1990</p>

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    FBI License Plate Codes</p>

<p> Somewhere in the  vicinity  of  2500  Soviet  and  Eastern  European
 officials live in the United States  at  any  given  time.  The U.S.
 State Department estimates that 30% to 40% of them are spies.</p>

<p> This comes to about 900 working spies in the diplomatic corps.</p>

<p> It is a very difficult job to keep track of the comings  and  goings
 of these "diplomats", so the government  has  developed  coded
 diplomatic license plates.</p>

<p> The code applies ONLY to diplomatic  plates  which are conspicuously
 red, white and blue with the word DIPLOMAT printed at the top.</p>

<p> All diplomatic licenses  have a D.  The other two  letters  indicate
 the nation. SX for example, indicates that the car carries diplomats
 from the Soviet Union.</p>

<p> FBI counter-intelligence agents are given wallet-sized cards listing
 the codes for eighteen "problem" nations.</p>

<p> These nations are identified by the following codes :</p>

<p>    Albania   CP    Libya   FM
    Bulgaria  OM    Nicaragua   QU
    China   CY    North Korea GQ
    Cuba    DC    Poland  QW
    Czechoslavakia  PH    Romania ND
    East Germany  TJ    South Africa  FY
    Hungary   KH    Soviet Union  SX
    Iran    DM    Syria   AQ
    Iraq    TS    Vietnam LD</p>

<p> The Washington Post  published  the  code  against the wishes of the
 State Department.  They feared RAMBO  types  might attack diplomatic
 vehicles of countries they did not like.
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<p>   Jerry W. Decker...Ron Barker.....Chuck Henderson
   Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet</p>

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