10-8-96. FiTi: "Offshore financial centres agree to greater scrutiny." The Offshore Group comprises most of the biggest offshore financial centres including the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Caymans, Gibraltar, the Channel Islands, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Panama and Singapore. The agreement says home supervisors should be able to inspect the books of shell branches wherever they are kept. "In no case should access to these books be protected by secrecy requirements in the country that licenses the shell branch," it says. WaJo: "Cold War Spying: Mystery Gives Way to History." The release of the Venona documents tells us more about the state of intelligence agencies today in both Russia and the U.S. than it does about Stalin's spy rings. These and counterpart activities in Moscow dramatize the ongoing campaign American and Russian intelligence agencies are waging in the 1990s -- not against each other but at home, to preserve their budgets and public respect. And with "Venona: The Book" launched at last week's conference, can a CIA/NSA CDROM be far behind? ----- http://jya.com/nocase.txt (10 kb for 2) ftp://jya.com/pub/incoming/nocase.txt NOC_ase ---------- Anybody got a copy of the Offshore Group's agreement? Whither EUB? Or seen "Venona: The Book"? If so, does David Kahn have a part?