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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Keywords: Espionage arpanet
Message-ID: <425@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 88 21:39:03 GMT
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Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
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In article <2200@gofast.camcon.co.uk> mfr@camcon.co.uk (Mike Richardson) writes:

>In article 2406 Michael Greim gives the "names" of the "security"
>organisations in the USA, USSR, UK and W. Germany.

Well, the officially accepted acronyms.

>A trivial point but (for the moment at least), MI5 and MI6 do not exist,
>at least not officially. This was stated by Sir Robert Armstrong,
>Secretary to the Cabinet during one of the interminable Spycatcher trials.

And I suppose you believe everything you hear or read ?

It seems pretty clear to everyone else that they *do* exist. What is your
point ? That they are officially denied by 'responsible' entities, in direct
contradiction to the evidence of everyone's senses ? Or that you don't
feel they exist ? Or that British citizens get harrassed for suggesting in
public that MI5 and MI6 exist, regardless of their actual purpose ?

>Mike Richardson

-- richard

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