Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!rutgers!mcnc!rti!bcw
From: bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Summary: KGB/CIA/MI5 Alert!!
Message-ID: <2592@rti.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 88 05:23:40 GMT
References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <17651@gatech.edu> <8114@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <8114@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, ajdenner@athena.mit.edu (Alexander J Denner) writes:
> 	To clarify:
> 	I think that it is great that Mr. Draper is sending bits of news
> to his Russian friends.  Such an act is good.  What I think would be bad
> is the Soviets becoming a large network connected with the West.  As I have
> said many times already, this allows the KGB to eliminate information sorting/
> acquistion operations in the US.

Yes, a network feed to the Soviet Union would allow them to acquire high-
quality information like that posted every day to this newsgroup! :-)

						Bruce C. Wright