The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office’s Octopus Logo
January 21st, 2016
Never mind the nauseating gibberish in the release from NRO. I thought this commentary was comedy gold.
Via: Muckrock:
The logo was widely lampooned as emblematic of the intelligence community’s tone-deafness to public sentiment. Incidentally, an octopus enveloping the planet also so happens to be the logo of SPECTRE, the international criminal syndicate that James Bond is always thwarting. So there’s that.
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As for the question of “why a giant octopus,” the NRO offers up these two clunky paragraphs, written with all the verve of a ninth-grader who only made it two-thirds of the way through the book.
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