From: skaplin@skypoint.com (Samuel Kaplin)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 94 02:12:41 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Zimmermann interrogated without counsel
In-Reply-To: <m0rBeUO-000bboC@maalox.ppgs.com>
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In article <m0rBeUO-000bboC@maalox.ppgs.com>, you wrote:
> (Philip Zimmermann uses PGP)
>
> The following is a letter from Ken Bass, who is one of the lawyers on
> my legal defense team, to US Customs.  It is mostly self-explanatory.
> It concerns the PGP investigation.
>
> For those of you unfamiliar with the PGP case, PGP is an email
> encryption program that is widely used around the world, and was
> published domestically in the USA as freeware in 1991.  As the creator
> of PGP, I am under investigation by US Customs.  They tell my lawyers
> that they suspect that I violated laws that prohibit the export of
> encryption software from the USA.
>
> If anyone wants to ask questions about this case, contact my lead
> defense attorney, Phil Dubois, at 303 444-3885, or dubois@csn.org.
>
> -Philip Zimmermann
>  prz@acm.org

The rest expunged because it infuriates me so...

What utter BULLSHIT!!!! (not you Phil, but your treatment by Customs!!)

I hope you are contemplating a little legal action of your own. At the
least this is harassment. I would be curious if Agent Winters was acting
upon his own initiative or whether he was instructed to do this. I suspect
the later.

Chin up, shoulders back, Phil...

Sam
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