We have found a literary agent in Zurich, who indicated the willingness to assist in the negotiations between our company and Richard. After several rounds of negotiations, some of which happened to be by non-encrypted e-mail, and a day before the signing the actual contract, the agent got the following very strongly-worded letter in German language, promising, in part, the prison sentense for their assistance. Certainly, literary agent was not willing to risk his freedom and promptly forgot about the whole business. Why we are sure it was routine e-mail interception? Very easy. While Richard Tomlinson was in Italy, the particular department of the Italian Ministry of Defence (MoD) was executing the eavesdropping requests by the MI-6 order. Eventually in the end of April 2000, something went wrong with the Spagetti-based email survelliance, and for several days in a row we (along with other correspondents) were receiving error messages, that our particular letters and Richard's replies to them were "unable to be routed: Status 5.4.4" to the particular email address, which traces to the Italian MoD internal computer network. The Italian Eavesdroppers' email was robi@ms.ash.interbusiness.it We will like to hear more details on the Italian email eavesdropping in general and this "robi" in particular and will gladly put them on our web site. http://www.thebigbreach.com/legal/