观察家称吴登盛之所以调入作战办公室，是靠着前将军兼特别行动局首脑钦貌丹的关系。

Observers said Thein Sein was transferred to the War Office as a courtesy to ex-Gen Khin Maung Than, the former head of the Bureau of Special Operations.

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对于大多数听众来说，这些信息毫无用处，但是对于那些少数人来说，这可能意味着通知他们在指定点上“炸毁一节铁路”或是“特别行动局的特工马上要来了”。

To most listeners, the messages meant nothing but to the informed few, they could mean anything from 'blow up a section of railway line' at a given point, to 'a new SOE agent will arrive shortly'.

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五角大楼和中情局在过去的一年里面，在位于也门首都萨那的美国大使馆中，策划了越来越多的特别行动。

The Pentagon and the C.I.A. have quietly bulked up the number of their operatives at the embassy in Sana, the Yemeni capital, over the past year.

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