Mom said "GET AWAY" when I'm on the Spy Phone

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Children of dead CIA officers try to learn about their work

WASHINGTON POST

By Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

John F. Sullivan had always wondered about his mother, Leonor E. "Lee" Sullivan, a CIA secretary and translator who died in December at 70, and especially about the strange telephones in their Reston home in the late 1970s and '80s. The Spy Phones, as the family called them, looked like ordinary tan rotary phones, but the standing orders were clear: Those are Mommy's phones. Never pick them up if they ring.

Sullivan, 36, a Waldorf resident who works in Naval intelligence preparing SEALs for missions, has little idea whom his mother was talking to on those phones or what the precise nature of her work was. "Mom said: 'Don't ever get on that phone. When I am on it, get away,'" said Sullivan, whose office staff greets callers with a chirpy "Hello, irregular warfare." "The notes my mom would keep, she kept in a safe. Now, the safe is gone."

His younger brother Jimmy Sullivan, however, recalled picking up the Spy Phone when playing video games with friends. "We'd be playing Atari, and we'd listen in," he said. "Or we'd pick up, and it'd be some dude in German ranting and raving."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020203887.html

[JDPriestly]

1. Delete

This is a strange story. Why are the children talking about this? If they were playing Atari, it hasn't been all that long ago (by my standards, but then I am older).

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. It is an unusual story... did you read past the OP? It gets better...

Atari dates back pretty far. Was Mario an Atari game?

[Lance_Boyle]

6. Mario first appeared in Donkey Kong, which was available for the Atari 2600.

That was, to the best of my knowledge, Mario's only appearance in Atari 2600-land. I think the Super Mario games started with the NES - probably a decade or more past the 2600.

[fire_in_the_middle]

2. german.... right.

GHWB head of cia around that time?
hmm daddy prescott Union Banking Corp with Thyssen? (as in ThyssenKrup

IG Farben, US Standard oil.

these guys are international, and theyre dirty. Generations of International Crime Family. and here's the kicker: they use the labor of the working class people to fund their exotic Pinky and the Brain schemes with black magic-steeped masonic numerology. check it.

just a wingnut. :P

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. whatever...

are you being serious?

[fire_in_the_middle]

5. which part?