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1997-06-17 - Re: Declan as a Budding Washington Insider

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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-06-17 07:43:11 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:43:11 +0800

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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:43:11 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Declan as a Budding Washington Insider
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At 4:09 PM -0700 6/15/97, Tim May wrote:
>One way they buy people--very reminiscent of the methods used to recruit
>spies--is to feed reporters with information they can't get anywhere else,
>and swear them to secrecy. This ties them up in complicated webs of trust,
>mistrust, and deceit, and makes the reporters more dependent on them for
>future stories.

All reporters should carefully consider the example of I. F. Stone.


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