Re: Earl Edwin Pitts, $224,000

At 06:06 PM 12/18/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 8:20 PM -0500 12/18/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/18/fbi.spy/index.html FBI agent spied for Soviet Union, Russia.
Too bad he didn't have access to the Clipper database. That would have helped us find its free market price.
...and who's to say he didn't? Anyone who bought it--the Russians, for example--would hardly have been likely to publicize their purchase.
(Maybe if _we_ purchased it, we'd publicize the purchase, but nearly anyone else would not.)
Or maybe he could just _claim_ to have sold the database. That'd work just as well, I think. Think how much trouble the gov't would have to go to do disprove him! Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com

jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> writes:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/18/fbi.spy/index.html FBI agent spied for Soviet Union, Russia.
Too bad he didn't have access to the Clipper database. That would have helped us find its free market price.
...and who's to say he didn't? Anyone who bought it--the Russians, for example--would hardly have been likely to publicize their purchase.
(Maybe if _we_ purchased it, we'd publicize the purchase, but nearly anyone else would not.)
Or maybe he could just _claim_ to have sold the database. That'd work just as well, I think. Think how much trouble the gov't would have to go to do disprove him!
Look at the hoops the Klinton administration jumps through to prove that flight TWA wasn't shot down by their missile. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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