20 January 2002 - bugged airplane

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2002 : 20 January 2002

The CIA is Smarter Than You Think

“What incompetence? We knew what was going to happen. They messed up our spy plane, last April. We can neither confirm nor deny that we messed up their plane, but ha ha, look how many of their own guys they’re arresting!”
— a CIA counter-counter-counter-counter-intelligence officer

clue:

Reports say that numerous high-tech bugs were found on an official Chinese plane which was fitted out in the U.S.—even though the work was done under continuous Chinese surveillance. One might accuse the CIA of carelessness in planting findable bugs....

give me a clue so sweet and true