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- From: wcs@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs)
- Subject: Re: GCHQ's location. No big secret!
- Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Random ReOrganization Generator
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:53:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.225348.4590@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- References: <715092656.11378@minster.york.ac.uk> <1992Aug31.105853.17069@cas.org>
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- In article <1992Aug31.105853.17069@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes:
- ] This pales in comparison to that legendary statement in
- ] the "Spycatcher" trial when the U.K. attorney-general admitted
- ] that although Sir Martin Hollis hade been head of MI6 "it did
- ] not mean that the organization existed before he was director-
- ] general or that it existed after he retired from the position."
- ] (I paraphrase).
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- I forget if it's the same scandal or a similar one, but in about 1986 a
- British politican was quoted as saying that his organization hadn't been lying,
- but "we were being economical with the truth" :-)
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- Pray for peace; Bill
- #Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 wcs@anchor.ho.att.com AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ
- # Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced ...
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