Printed in Ekstra Bladet 21. march 2000
IS THERE A SPY ON THE LINE?
Ex-spy meets his victim: Ekstra Bladet sets up a meeting between former
Echelon spy Fred Stock and the secretary-general for Denmark's Amnesty
organization. Amnesty is concerned.
Echelon is monitoring and spying on Amnesty
The NYT today reports on the UK's Demon Internet paying
a wad of money to Laurence Godfrey, a physicist allegedly
libeled on a news group, soc.culture.thai, first on January 12,
1997, there again later, and subsequently on uk.legal.
Phill Hallam-Baker is mentioned as having been required
in
Mr. Choate replied:
Yes, it is. The reason is pretty simple. Whether a piece of data
is public or private is really irrelevant in this case.
I said:
Not according to the supreme court.
He replied:
[ They are wrong. ]
Uh huh. Ok. Gosh, look at the time. I have to be going.
France's Le Monde yesterday had a long piece on Echelon
which closed with speculation about alleged ex-spies going
into commerce around the world as moles and reporting
back economic espionage to the agencies which sent
them out for this purpose under guise of downsizing, or
as with undercover
