Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!tmpmbx!pengo
From: pengo@tmpmbx.UUCP (Hans H. Huebner)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Message-ID: <1391@tmpmbx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 18:29:59 GMT
References: <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2672@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <8090@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: pengo@tmpmbx.UUCP (Hans H. Huebner)
Organization: netmbx GbR, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <8090@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> ajdenner@athena.mit.edu (Alexander J Denner) writes:
>						  The limit on their [the
>KGB's] acquisition of information is logistic.  With a link, they can
>peruse the info faster, more easily, and much more throughly.
>Also, the KGB can devote the displaced people in this country to other
>espionage activities.  (They only have a limited number of people in 
>this country.)
Don't close your eyes.  If the KGB wants a link to the international
networks, it's just easy to get one without problems.  For example, I live
in Berlin, and I can see the the eastern block right with my eyes when I
look out of the window.  I assume that here are many companies whose owners
or employees have "good" contacts to eastern block secret services, and as
such a link would be absolutely no problem.
I think, the idea of proclaming the official linkup to the UseNet ist
great.  It would do something to get the inter-block relations on a more
rational base.  After all, on both sides there are just humans, and the
best way to become friends or at least accept each other is by direct
communication.  The secret services have their own way playing the game,
but that's not our business.

	-Hans

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