The July 24 1996 edition of the Wall Street Journal has a front page article about the "cashless Pachinko cards" in Japan which resulted in losses for several businesses. This was discussed in cypherpunks when the story originally broke months ago. The article in the WSJ relates how the cards were the results of fears that the money laundered from the pachinko halls was being sent to North Korea to fund the nuclear program there. The CIA provided intelligence about this to the Japanese authorities according to the article. Far too many details to summarize here, I suggest those who are interested read it. Fred