From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:33:28 -0700 (PDT)
To: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>
Subject: Re: The Iron Mountain Report
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The author of the Iron Mountain Report was interviewed on PBS a few weeks
ago. It was a really over-the-top parody published in 1967.

A quick AltaVista search turns up several references to the Iron Mountain
thing being a hoax, and at least two militia-type conspiracy wacko pages
insisting that it's true.

Every once in a while, I get mail asking whether I really have contacts in
Sendero Luminoso, since a bit of satire I wrote was quoted in the Web
Review (which made no attempt to contact me before printing the satire as
my position). 

Truth is far more fragile than fiction.

-rich

On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Martin Minow wrote:

> >Some years ago the federal government set up a special
> >[inaudible] group. For two-and-a-half years they met in secret at
> >Iron Mountain, New York. Their findings were called "Report from
> >Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace."
> >Their document, by some of the leading thinkers, was suppressed.
> >Later, it was printed in a limited edition, with the *names*
> >removed. Some were shocked by what they read.
> >
> 
> I've read the Report from Iron Mountain (I bought it about 20
> years ago, and I believe that it's currently available in
> paperback). While it *could* be legitimate, I think it may be
> more approprately filed next to Johnathan Swift's Irish cookbook.
> 
> Martin Minow
> minow@apple.com