From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:16:30 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000
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jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> writes:
> >>http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/18/fbi.spy/index.html
> >>FBI agent spied for Soviet Union, Russia.
>
> >>Too bad he didn't have access to the Clipper database.  That would
> >>have helped us find its free market price.
> >
> >...and who's to say he didn't? Anyone who bought it--the Russians, for
> >example--would hardly have been likely to publicize their purchase.
> >
> >(Maybe if _we_ purchased it, we'd publicize the purchase, but nearly anyone
> >else would not.)
>
> Or maybe he could just _claim_ to have sold the database.  That'd work just
> as well, I think.   Think how much trouble the gov't would have to go to do
> disprove him!

Look at the hoops the Klinton administration jumps through to prove that
flight TWA wasn't shot down by their missile.

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