At 8:32 AM 7/22/96, Bilderberger Standard Time, Disinformation Officer Anonymous wrote:

FBI Special Agent Safdar is upset enough by the revelation of his true identity to issue a quick denial (on a sunday night, to get more OT no doubt), but he doesn't even bother to try to refute the central truth that his cover has been blown by a careless operator at his home office who verified his employment and offered to take a message for him.

We don't have to wonder a second longer about the motives behind Safdar\VTW\FBI's collection of names of crypto-dissidents, their support of the Leahy crypto control bill, their refusal to denounce it even today, their support of the digital telephone act, the disinformation to make us believe otherwise and all the other lies. And what about the money?

We must call on the other organizations, like EPIC, EFF, CDT, and ACLU to denounce the VTW\FBI fraud. Their board of directories, Blaze and

I contacted Field Agent Eric Hughes, of the Western Regional Office, and he denied that there are any connections between VTW (Vulis Tchurka Watch) and the FBI. The special functions of Operation Sun Tentacle, led by a former Sun employee named John Gilmore, are focussed almost totally on recruiting the "tentacles" of dissidents in the Western Regional Area, centered on the Bay Area. Ignore disinformation. --Special Agent Timothy C. May cc: James Kallstrom, Cypherpunks New York Office