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From the Cynic’s Guide to CIA Language:

“High confidence.” Translation: “We may actually know this, but we’ve spent too much to reveal our methods.”

“Moderate to high confidence.” Translation: “Your guess is as good as ours.”

“Moderate confidence.” Translation: “We have absolutely no idea.”

BMac adds:

“Similar to the assessments of French and German intelligence services.” Translation: “intelligence failure”

“Top secret.” Translation: Likely to make it to noon without being published in the New York Times.

“CIA Secret Agent.” Translation: “Vanity Fair covergirl.”

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