[81944] in Cypherpunks
Re: Declan as a Budding Washington Insider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Jun 17 04:11:21 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102801afca23e96bf3@[207.167.93.63]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 23:18:09 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 4:09 PM -0700 6/15/97, Tim May wrote:
>One way they buy people--very reminiscent of the methods used to recruit
>spies--is to feed reporters with information they can't get anywhere else,
>and swear them to secrecy. This ties them up in complicated webs of trust,
>mistrust, and deceit, and makes the reporters more dependent on them for
>future stories.
All reporters should carefully consider the example of I. F. Stone.
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