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Re: Invitation from the MIB

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William H. Geiger III)
Tue Mar 23 11:17:06 1999

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:59:41 -0500
From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cypherpunks@openpgp.net>
Reply-To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net>

In <19990323084958.A14419@weathership.homeport.org>, on 03/23/99 
   at 08:34 AM, Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> said:

>Fishing expeditions.  Read a history of the COINTELPRO activities. There
>was a systematic effort to drag in bad guys and ask them lots of 
>questions, both to distract and occupy them, and to search for threads 
>to hang a case on.

>The only appropriate phrase to use on a grand jury fishing trip is "I
>can't recall at this time."

Well I was wondering why I received a subpeona at such a late date. The
issue date on the paperwork is 10 MAR 99, 1 day after the Web World series
was posted to the list via the openpgp.net node. Seeing a From: line with
Buba Rom Dos must have catched someones attention.

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