2003-08-11
... ? Telegraph | Connected | QED: Boring plodders have sometimes made historyFollowing the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979, fundamentalist students broke into the US Embassy in Teheran and seized a vast archive of secret intelligence material. The Embassy's staff had managed to shred many of the most sensitive documents, but they need not have bothered. The students simply gathered it all up and set about the mind-numbing job of piecing the documents together again.
