Good point. A Russian cryptographer was grabbed, unable to talk to his consulate for at least three days, and the Russians don't say anything? I smell a rat. Perhaps Dmitry was sold down the river. (Note for non-USA readers: "sold down the river" is an americanism for betrayal. It dates from the days of slavery, where the conditions for slaves were worse the further down the (Mississippi) river they were. It was common for slaveowners to promise to sell their slaves upriver to gain their goodwill, and then sell them downriver for more money than they could get upriver. Since slaves' communication was tightly controlled, lying to the ones left about where their buds had gone was also common, and usually undetected. Parallels to the current situation are left as an exercise for the reader.) Bear