From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 00:53:50 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Inman, Exports, and Conspiracies
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Not sure what this has to do with List anymore, what with Inman
slinking away (he pulled a perot), but here goes:

"Anonymous" writes:

> Additional reference was made during the interview
> to a "proxy board being seperate from export violations" ?
> and he supposedly was a member of the proxy board,
> he also made reference to "the new mccarthyism" and complained extensively
> about unfair newspaper editorial coverage and made reference
> to reporters reading "some conspiracy theorists book" (Bamford "Puzzle Palace"?)

Not Bamford, but likely a very new book on how the U.S. helped arm
Iraq. I forget the title, but it's very new. I flipped through it, and
in fact looked up the references to Inman, as I'd heard the book raked
him over the coals.

> The aboce snatches raise important questions
> could Bobby Inman former head of NSA be involved in a
> conspiracy to end run ITAR??? Can ANYONE illuminate this issue?
> Ted koppel made the reference that that last exchange
> probably lost most of the viewers... what is going on here???
> John Gilmore did you see and hear this what was Inman referring to?
> and does it involve DELL or other private companies?

Well, I'm not Gilmore, except as a Tentacle, but Dell was not the
company involved. Any of the written articles about Inman should do a
good job of naming these connections, how Inman wrote some letters, etc.

Inman is history, in any case.

--Tim May


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