Re: counterfeiting

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

you have to remember that Kim Jong Il is a "madman," at least
according to the crazy people running the US. Actually, to call these
folks "crazy" is an insult to those who genuinely have mental
disabilities.

On 12/12/05, Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Why would they want to undermine confidence in the dollar?  Seems to
> undercut their profits.
>
>  Gene Coyle
>
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>  Jim Devine wrote:
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>  from today's SLATE news summary:
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>  The day's best read is a long takeout in the LA [TIMES] on a massive
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>  counterfeiting ring run out of North Korea. Though its existence has
> long been rumored, recent criminal prosecutions have afforded an
> unprecedented glimpse into the racket, which teams Chinese gangsters
> and Irish terrorists with Stalinist apparatchiks "using equipment from
> Japan, paper from Hong Kong and ink from France" to mass-produce phony
> $100 bills at a mint burrowed in a remote mountain. The aim is to get
> rich while also undermining confidence in the dollar abroad.<
>
> didn't the CIA use counterfeiting as a weapon against the USSR during
> the Cold War? or against other governments it didn't like?
> --
> Jim Devine
> "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
> people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
>
>
>


--
Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.