At least you don't accuse me of being a Communist. For the record, I am not a tool of the CIA nor have they pressured me, but there's no reason for you to believe me. Esther Dyson At 08:23 PM 9/2/96 +1000, Julian Assange wrote: SNIP ---

Examining in detail Dyson's interests it appears she maintains a sizeable and long-standing interest in Eastern European technology companies. She is also clearly very far to the right of the political spectrum (rampant capitalist would be putting it mildly). She also speaks Russian. I'm not saying she has been working for the CIA for the past decade, but I would be very surprised if the CIA has not exerted quite significant pressure (which they are easily able to do given the location of many of Dyson's assets) in order to bring her into their folds during that time period.

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