Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!solo!vaxb.acs.unt.edu!cirby From: cirby@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Steve Jackson Message-ID: <1990Nov15.135635.40920@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> Date: 15 Nov 90 13:50:34 GMT References: <5664@crash.cts.com> Lines: 29 In article <5664@crash.cts.com>, frostfire7@pro-graphics.cts.com (Michael Satran, SubOp) writes: > That's not the real reason the CIA raided the GURPS cyberpunk supplement. IT > was far too accurate in it's descriptions of surveillance techniques for the > CIA's taste. A great deal of that stuff in the supplement really irritated > the CIA, because some of these methods were used by the CIA themselves. The > GURPS version of Cyberpunk might as well have been called the CIA basic > training manual. Once it became clear that they was nothing they could do > about it, the CIA let it be published. > -- Michael Satran I'd like to point out, for those of you with little or no sense of humor, that this is a funny posting. Not *that* funny, considering the political climate, but funny. Actually, GURPS Cyberpunk was an encoded file which reveals all of the names of the people who contributed to the Savings and Loan debacle, and the Trilateral Commission needed to update their mailing list. [Not enough smilies...] -- C Irby || "Go that way... *really* fast. Internet: cirby@vaxa.acs.unt.edu || If something gets in your way, Bitnet: cirby@untvax || turn!" Compuserve: 71541,770 || ---_Better Off Dead_---