I was just looking through a couple of the earliest messages on the 1996 CP archive file.  This was one email:

From cypherpunks@MHonArc.venona Wed Dec 17 23:17:14 2003 From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 09:09:30 +0800 To: Brad Dolan <winkjr@teleport.com> Subject: Re: CSPAN Currency Creation Hearings Message-ID: <v02120d01ad0e3032db00@[192.0.2.1]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain

At 19:04 1/1/96, Brad Dolan wrote:

I caught part of it.

The general theme was,~"we're going to establish a `partnership' with digicash / crypto firms to ensure that our `legitimate law-enforcement needs' are designed into the products."~

I sincerely doubt that there will be any 'partnerships' between DigiCash and law enforcement. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. --------------- quote from email ------------- On seeing this, it immediately occurred to me, suppose we had asked those people, "Okay, Sir, what ILLEGITIMATE law-enforcement needs" would you want us to include as well?"Okay, I'm just in a funny mood tonight. Jim Bell