From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 08:19:16 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: Net and Terrorism
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talon57@well.com writes:

> 
> 
> Tim May wrote:
> 
> >Again, the Sarin attack in Tokyo had nothing to do with former
> >U.S.S.R. CBW weapons. Chemical and biological agents are cheap to
> >make, especially in the quanties needed to kill only a few
> >thousand people, and in the non-battlefield delivery environment.
> 
> Actually Tim, the Aum Supreme truth cult was using a Russian
> formula for it's production of sarin, and was spending vast amounts
> of time and money trying to obtain Russian NBC expertise. They
> supposedly had an estimated 30,000 followers in the former Soviet
> union.
> 
> I recently finished an excellent book "The cult at the end of the
> world" about all this and highly recommend it to my fellow
> cypherpunks.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 


I used to do work for the company that distributed AUM literature in Russia.
Curiously, the same people distribute Baha'i literature. :-)

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