Cisco sets ex-CIA spook to hunt down leaking staffer

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/09/cisco_cia_mole/

By Iain Thomson in San Francisco
The Register
9th November 2012

Updated -- Cisco appears to be rather annoyed that one of its staff has 
been leaking memos to the press, and its vice president of global labs 
(and former CIA operative) Michael Quinn has sent a chilling email to 
staff warning he will hunt down the culprit.

"The person or persons whom felt it was cool or correct to share this 
internal memo should now have the intestinal fortitude to stand up and 
admit that they did this, then resign," he said. "Now I know you do not 
have it in you to stand up and admit what you did, so I will now make 
you my 'hobby.' Ask around you will find out that I like to work on my 
hobbies."

The fracas kicked off after a report last month that Cisco had lost a 
ten-year contract with California State University after its bid to 
upgrade the campus networks. The contract was won by Alcatel-Lucent, who 
put in a bid for $22m, compared to the offer from the incumbent Cisco of 
$122m, according to university staff.

After the news broke, two Cisco executives who worked on the deal sent 
out an internal memo to staff denying that the proposed contract fee was 
almost six times the cost of the competition. The two said that they had 
been closely involved in the deal and didn’t recognize the figures 
involved, despite the fact that those figures came from CSU's IT 
department, which had reviewed the contracts.

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