[42677] in Cypherpunks
Re: US government department for crime enforcement!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca)
Wed Nov 1 17:49:23 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 17:42:03 -0500 (EST)
From: s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca
Reply-To: s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199511011440.GAA23008@jobe.shell.portal.com>
On Wed, 1 Nov 1995 anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
> It's come to my attention that the US government has a group
> called the 'Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes
> Enforcement Network' in Vienna, Virginia.
>
Yeah, in case you're interested, Anon, Wired had an article on them,
I think in 1.2, the cypherpunks issue. It might also be in their privacy
archive. Fincen has webpages at
www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/fincen/fincen.html
The agency is pretty much an alternative to the IRS's crumbling computers
and a nice cover for possibly unapproved interagency cooperation.
Look up some recent posts by Douglas Barnes on a banking conference.
Sorry to repeat what's been said here a zillion times before.
This account is a remailer for bad terminal servers. The above opinions are
entirely the result of line noise. @#$#@$~%?!!
