Crazy, lots of John Perry Barlow + CIA results

Now I wonder how much Grateful Dead were associated with the Clowns In America

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:u2jwr4C4OyAJ:https://www.economist.com/babbage/2014/01/22/double-agent&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0

For starters, it turns out that Mr Barlow is not as afraid of government, and even intelligence agencies, as one might expect. In fact, he helped the CIA or at least tried to—as a “double agent”. In Munich he reminisced about a visit to the CIA in the early 1990s during which he was struck by how “retrograde” they were: at that time information was still moving around the building in vacuum tubes. “It was way more like [the tube-filled movie] 'Brazil' than Bond,” he said, “and I took it by myself from that point forward to help out. Because I felt one of the things the intelligence agencies did, and were incredibly bad at, was figuring out what was actually going on in the world.”

Mr Barlow admits that he was not very successful at teaching the CIA and others “how information really worked.” There was a group that welcomed his ideas, and some even cared about constitutional rights. But in the end he did not convince the spooks that they should do things more openly, and share information—so that they could make better use of it. “Instead they made themselves more secretive. At the NSA every single paragraph of an e-mail has to be classified.”