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[Music] picture this you're an ambassador and you're shipping something to your buddy at another Embassy something important like classified documents sensitive equipment or the Love Letter that's been rotting in your drawer for a year while you work up the courage complicating matters your buddy's Embassy is in an active conflict Zone and if someone damages bugs or intercepts your package you'll be on the hook for threatening National Security with the stakes this high you're not handing that package over the boys in blue or brown or purple instead you're going to use the state Department's Diplomatic Courier Service a Global Network of just over 100 of the United States's most elite delivery folk they're diplomatically immune their knack for travel Logistics Rivals Santas they're Duty bound to keep their eyes on your stuff until it arrives and in 105 years of service they've only ever lost one thing but I'm getting ahead of myself what is the DCS and how does it work during World War I the Army created the silver greyhounds a precursor to the Diplomatic Courier Service to shorten delivery times between Paris and DC postwar the Greyhound stuck around and established routes in Europe centered around these cities and a few Mediterranean ports I don't know why they picked these exactly but it appears they were going alphabetically and hit budget cuts after her beat in the' 60s the vietna conventions on diplomatic relations granted diplomatic immunity to every country's diplomatic couriers and outlawed tampering with their packages around the same time the US's service expanded Beyond Europe to West Africa at first the DCS pretty much only moved documents and communication but two mid 80s party fouls in Moscow broaden their scope in 1984 workers at the Embassy there bought some electric typewriters locally then found out they had devices installed recording their keystrokes after that equipment that was going to handle classified diplomatic information had to be bought and tested in the United States then brought over by the Diplomatic couriers then in 1985 the Bureau of Diplomatic Security took a poke around a new state department facility in Moscow and discovered listening devices built into its structure including wires running through poured concrete pillars after that Diplomatic Courier started supervising transport of all construction materials used to to build State Department facilities that handle classified info by 1999 the service had a hub and spoke model with hubs in these seven places the heliny one didn't last but the system has otherwise only grown now serving 270 embassies and consulates and with hubs added in all these places the frankf fort 1 is the system's largest thanks to its relative proximity to the Middle East Asia and the rest of Europe it's so key to the system in fact that over a fifth of all the US's diplomatic couriers are based fair when it's time for delivery its assigned Courier will route plan based on the shipment physical size and urgency as well as their budget and any other requests heavy stuff usually Travels by land and sea high priority stuff goes by air and high priority heavy stuff I don't know actually probably air but maybe Wormhole or something however it's moving and however big it is every item that couriers move gets wrapped up in a Chic waterresistant orange canvas bag with tamperproof locks and a label nobody knows what's inside couriers aren't allowed to Peak and they skip screening at TSA and the like thanks to the Vienna conventions but while they don't look inside they can't take their eyes off the outside if they're on a cargo ship they'll usually keep the pouch in their cabin instead of leaving it in the cargo hold for a plane they'll watch the pouch get loaded and the cargo bay sealed while they board a second Courier will stay and watch the plane taxi and take off from the tarmac when it arrives a third Courier will be waiting at the next tarmac supervising the landing and gate approach until the traveling Courier disembarks which they get to do before anyone else on the plane those little moments of overlap on the tarmac are about as much collaboration with their colleagues as couriers get they're in transit as much as 15 to 20 days a month and the vast majority of that travel is solo just them bonding with the pouch like a kangaroo there was a Cold War era buddy system for crossing the Iron Curtain because a solo Courier had fallen off a train his pouch went missing and people suspected Foul Play the buddy system stopped when the Iron Curtain fell and don't worry they found that Courier's pouch eventually may he rest in peace that's not to say Courier spent all their time alone in active conflict zones they travel with Agents from The Diplomatic Security Service and even on relatively safe missions they may work with translators drivers fixers air Crews or security Personnel to help facilitate smooth Crossings through Borders or other checkpoints for a short trip like this from from dhar to the neighboring merian capital of newak shut one Courier will take the pouch all the way from point A to point B in that case getting from Dakar to the Border in two cars and skipping the hours long line for the border crossing fer no Ferry with the help of a translator then meeting employees from the Marian Embassy and joining them and their two more cars for the 6-hour drive to New a shot on other deliveries couriers hand off the pouch to make sure it always has an alive awake alert enthusiastic Handler so if a truck full of electric typewriters were heading from Frankfurt to Moscow one Courier might leave on said truck while another flies straight to loads and takes the pouch when the first Courier gets there then the first one goes home and the second takes it to Min then tags out with a third to get it to Moscow but no route is immune to setbacks so couriers are ready to handle any wrench that might get thrown their way there are stories of couriers saving pouches and people from crashing planes finding routes through War zones coups and natural disasters and spending hours on tarmac laying on pouches in the rain after a misconnection in researching this video I came across multiple instances of pouches making it to their destination even when The Courier died on the way there as I said they've only lost one pouch it was 1919 it was a Bulgarian train station it was a baby grand piano and by all accounts it seems to have gone missing because its Courier fell asleep under it instead of on top of it and people nicked it literally right off him probably why those tarmac green people stayed on top of theirs all in all diplomatic Cur in is a pretty sweet gig loads of travel delicious Logistics plenty of alone time honestly I'd sign up tomorrow if I thought I had the restraint to not take a peekaboo in the pouches oh well you know what they say those that can't do make an hii video about it the state department uses 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