Bruce Schneier posted about this on his blog today. Apparently an Italian court was able to track 2 undercover CIA officers by their frequent flier miles and cell phone usage in 2003. These 2 were whipping out their frequent flier cards when they traveled. Now I never worked for that particular 3 letter agency…but I would think at the very least there would be a policy or operational guideline against something like that. Common sense ought to kick in at some point given the state of Information Technology and data warehousing.
Italy is trying to prosecute these 2 along with 24 other CIA and military personnel for their alleged role in the kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr ( Abu Omar ) in Milan. The Chicago Tribune disclosed a segment of one of the operatives itinerary then said “according to frequent-flier records obtained by the Tribune”. It’s nice to know that people’s itineraries are that easy to come by, especially that of a CIA officer that is involved in international litigation. Hopefully they were part of court documents obtained legally and not an anonymous source.
I can almost hear the manuals being updated at Camp Perry…..
–Chris
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