YOU are the liar. You're also talking sh1t about something you have no way of knowing.

In the '80s, pre-internet and during the Gorbachov years leading up to the Berlin Wall coming down, there were certainly travel restrictions for US government contractors. We were allowed to travel outside the US, to some friendly countries, as long as we traveled with the passports the State Dept. issued us. We absolutely could not travel under our own passports, and we had to schedule international trips weeks in advance. As the facility Lead Tech/Supervisor, I wasn't supposed to travel overseas at all. I guess I could have, but it never came up.

WebbyMarkie, YOU have never known anybody that did what I did. I can say that, because I know the other three guys that I worked with in the same facility. Two have died and the third is in a nursing home.

No, I was not a spy. No, I was not some bad@ss. I was just a Motorola "Field Engineer" that was very, very good at what I did. Back then, everything electronics was hardware, with software coming up as the new tech. Since it's now in Wikipedia, I can say ONE of the projects I worked on was OTAR, in its infancy. I'm sure they've gone way beyond what I did as a tech in the '80s by now. Likely, the equipment I worked on has been "86ed" by now, though the feds were never known for having the latest equipment.