Brit Intel Telling Tales

Ken Brown k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Mon Feb 12 02:28:41 PST 2001


Still visible from UK on Monday morning.

Oh whoops, does that mean I have a copy on my hard disk? What a pity...


Ken Brown

John Young wrote:
> 
> 9 February 2001, 2:35 PM EST. Cryptome has just received
> word that the British government is telling UK newspapers that
> an arrangement has been reached with Cryptome's ISP,
> Verio, to yank "Enquiry: The Killing Years in Ireland":
> 
>   http://cryptome.org/fru-walshaw.htm
> 
> We have not heard from Verio, and the file remains available.
> 
> The British government is threatening to injunct any UK
> publisher intending to reveal information in the file which
> was received from an anonymous source and names a
> controversial intelligence agent runner in Northern Ireland.
> The named officer is the center of a major investigation
> of orchestrated murders assisted by British intel.
> 
> The Brits are telling newspapers that publication on Cryptome
> does not mean the information is widely available, thus justifying
> British publication.
> 
> Cryptome will not remove the file except in response
> to a US court order because it is our belief that nothing
> in the file is illegal under US law.





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