Philip Zimmermann and the Press

[jim bell]

At 08:46 PM 1/23/96 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>I contacted Phil about the neo-Nazi attribution in the British
>press. He has apparently contacted the newspaper and it appears that
>they are probably going to print an article retracting their
>statement. I've asked him to comment here but I don't know if he will.
>
>Perry

What _I_ want to see is NOT MERELY an apology and retraction, but ALSO a 
statement of where the hell this claim came from in the  first place.  WHY?