textfiles-politics/src-xml/diplomat.xml

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      <p> October 17, 1990</p>
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<ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> 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> <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> 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 <ent type='LOC'>North Korea</ent> 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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