From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:54:23 -0800 (PST)
To: "Timothy C. May" <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000
Message-ID: <199612190254.SAA18254@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 06:06 PM 12/18/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
>At 8:20 PM -0500 12/18/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
>>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!


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com