From: "Edwin E. Smith" <edsmith@IntNet.net>
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 18:13:08 -0700 (PDT)
To: Peter Swire <swire.1@osu.edu>
Subject: Re: A new Swiss banking novel
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At 04:04 PM 5/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>	This weekend I finished reading a novel that talks about many of 
the
>issues of interest to this group.  It's Christopher Reich, "Numbered
>Account," Delacorte Press.  The  author was a real Swiss banker for 
a few
>years.  Now he writes a pretty darn good suspense novel featuring 
how
>numbered Swiss bank accounts work.  In the cryptography debates, the 
FBI
>makes a big deal about how anonymous bank accounts can be used by 
drug
>smugglers, money launderers, international arms merchants, and anti-
Western
>terrorists.  They're all here in the novel.  So are the U.S. 
government
>agents -- a bit bumbling, thoroughly obnoxious and self-righteous, 
but also
>genuinely concerned about stopping truly bad people.  Reich also 
talks a
>bit about a new crypto system the bank develops for handling secret
>transactions.
>


Excuse me for asking, but what's so bad about "drug smugglers, money 
launderers, international arms merchants, and anti-Western 
terrorists."

Edwin E. Smith

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