(Fwd) John Young, CIA files, and FBI pressure -> hard to access cryptome.org

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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To:             	cryptography@c2.net
Subject:        	John Young, CIA files, and FBI pressure -> hard to access cryptome.org
Date sent:      	Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:56:09 -0700
From:           	John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>

If you wondered why our favorite archive was a bit slow, this is why.

So now don't all of you go off and add to the load -- you probably
won't get in anyway.  Either lots of people like pulling down
documents they aren't supposed to have, or perhaps some spook agency
worldwide is doing a distributed denial-of-service attack on his site.

 John

Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:16:09 -0700
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: More on John Young, CIA files, and FBI pressure

My article from Friday:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37718,00.html

AP followup from Saturday:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000722/aponline185612_
000.htm

Washington Post article that appeared on page A2 on Sunday:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28051-2000Jul22.html

Druge late Saturday:

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT JULY 22 2000 18:02:48 ET XXXXX
WEB LEAK SPOOKS THE SPOOKS; SECRET CIA DOCS END UP ONLINE
A secret CIA report of the U.S. intelligence community has been posted
on the Internet!
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000722/aponline185612
_000.h tm> The CIA briefing, prepared for visiting Japanese
intelligence officials has appeared on CRYPTOME, an Internet site [
http://jya.com/crypto.htm ]
<http://jya.com/crypto.htmhttp://jya.com/crypto.htm> , which is run by
activists opposed to government secrecy. CRYPTOME's webmaster, John
Young, tells Sunday's WASHINGTON POST that he posted the secret CIA
document, together with lists naming hundreds of agents from Japan's
Public Security Investigation Agency, after receiving the documents
from a source in Japan. CIA officials have not asked Young to remove
the briefing, but two FBI agents called him on Thursday and forwarded
a request from the Japanese Ministry of Justice that the lists be
removed. "Young refused, saying publication of the lists contributed
to public awareness of how government agencies function," reports the
POST.


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