Spy Games Come To New York For UN General Assembly -- Wall Street JournalNEW YORK — When Iran's president accused the U.S. at the United Nations General Assembly last year of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, American diplomats were not caught flat-footed by the tirade.
Even before President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad finished his incendiary rant, U.S. diplomats marched out of the cavernous U.N. hall in protest and were ready with a written statement condemning his comments.
It was as if the U.S. knew exactly what Ahmadinejad intended to say.
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My Comment: This spying is not only isolated to the UN's office in new York City, but it also exists in other offices. For example .... in the late 1980s I got a job working security (evening shift) at the UN's ICAO offices in Montreal. No one in the Soviet delegation knew that Russian was my first language .... I was always talking in English or French. LOL .... you can just imagine what I heard spoken around me without senior Soviet diplomats knowing that I knew what they were saying. But after two years this ruse came to end when the rumored "KGB resident" in ICAO (who we shall say is Boris B. and who is now in Putin's circle) walked by my desk and overheard me speaking fluent Russian to my mother. The look that he gave me was priceless. Unfortunately .... after that experience no one from the Soviet delegation ever stopped by my desk to use my phone or to talk to me.
But there is a happy ending .... when the Soviet Union fell apart, these same diplomats became close friends resulting in many happy drinking experiences in Canada and in Russia. If anyone is curious .... I left ICAO in 1994.