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From: kempf@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Jim Kempf)
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Subject: Re: UUCP - USSR
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 10:44:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 10:44:09 1987
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Supposedly, the Soviet Union has a listening post in Cuba able to tap
in on all the telephone traffic along the U.S. East Coast. So they're
probably able to get anything they want. I doubt if it makes much
difference to their intelligence whether they get an open UUCP connection.
On the other hand, it may make a lot of difference to how informed their
citizens are about both technical and nontechnical developments in the
West, and about how informed we are what goes on there. In fact, considering
how closed their society is, we might be the ones to gain.


		Jim Kempf	kempf@hplabs.hp.com

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