Tom Busby, Archivist for the Cypherpunks Archive:
   Please tell us what you have been doing about this forgery, and what do
   you intend to do in the future.  See the material below.  I suggest
   contacting the people who claim to have been involved with generation
   and the maintenance of the material that went into the archive, and
   those involved in the list in the mid-late 1990's.   Please respond to
   the Cypherpunks list.
            Jim Bell'

   On Friday, November 15, 2019, 05:42:36 PM PST, jim bell
   <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
   On Friday, November 15, 2019, 03:36:47 PM PST, grarpamp
   <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
   On 11/15/19, jim bell <[1]jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
   >> this Cypherpunks Archive forgery?
   >As there have been too many messages over too
   many broken threads etc on this for anyone to digest...
   >What is the current state of this, exactly?
   >1) Venona/Cryptome has entire month sized time gaps.
   Have those gaps been proven malicious with evidence?
   If so, what is it.
   That's an excellent question.   If there were merely 5 months of a
   virtually-total gap, (Feb 14-July 11, 1995) a person might declare that
   looked like an innocent loss of data.  But the problem is that during
   another 6 month period (July 11 -December 1995) there are thousands of
   messages, and yet almost none containing the strings "jim bell",
   "jimbell@pacifier.com", " ap ", or "assassination politics".
   I happen to have an advantage over people who weren't reading or
   posting on CP during those months:  I know that there should be many
   hundreds and perhaps thousands of such references.   So, I know that
   the 1995 archive was heavily forged.  No mere accidental deletion of
   data could have achieved that outcome.  And the contents of the 1996
   archive clearly shows large numbers even in January 1996.
   Further, the very few messages with those text strings in November and
   December 1995 show that I was indeed on the CP list that early.  Where
   are the huge number of "What is this AP idea anyway?" comments?
   Further, if you do a google search for ' "assassination politics" 1995'
   it is quite clear that 'everybody' realizes that AP was first
   publicized in 1995, not 1996.  A forgery that completely removed each
   and every such reference in 1995 would be obviously false.  Even
   Wikipedia says:
   "In April 1995, Bell authored the first part of a 10-part essay called
   "Assassination Politics", which described an elaborate [2]assassination
   market in which anonymous benefactors could securely order the killings
   of government officials or others who are violating citizens'
   rights."




                        Assassination market

   Early uses of the terms "assassination market" and "market for
        assassinations" can be found (in both positive an...

   Although, it cites no references in this.  There are, however, many
   other results for the google search which clearly identify AP as
   beginning in 1995.
   >2) Jim asserts, and context of some messages in
   Venona/Cryptome said to show, that Jim and or others
   seem to have been posting on AP subject during
   those gaps, somewhere on some fora / remailer.
   And, of course, I've suggested that people who were active on the list
   be contacted and asked.  Declan McCullagh is one of the more well-known
   people, although oddly his name and email address is also mysteriously
   missing from most of the 1995 archive.
   >Months long wholesale gaps could just be fuckups.
   Certainly different than say obvious erasement
   single scope targeting a topic / author.
   >So it seems you'd want to make a simple call for
   more independant copies of the various fora with
   attestations, to help form and answer any real question.
   That's quite true.   Surprisingly, we've seen nothing so far.
   >This is not to discount any questions that may exist.
   Only to define the current state of the questions
   so that people, journos, whoever, might have
   something precise to try answering next.
   I am quite confident that the answers will be forthcoming.
   >People should present the current questions and any
   evidence again, briefly, in one nice new thread or post,
   so people can pick up and work on.
   Good idea.
   >Not over 10+ threads, 50+ posts comprising 100 of pages of
   longtalk, block quoting, top posting, HTML, sidetalk, rants, etc.
   >You should of course quote in that summary, any 1995
   messages from people other than Jim that refer in context
   to any suspected missing AP messages.
   >It would also be interesting if say 5 people stood up each
   with a copy from a different remailer, and none had the
   suspected AP messages in them.
   I think we are all awaiting the answer.
                Jim Bell

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