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To: Kirk © who wrote (13312)	4/17/2000 4:45:00 PM
From: Allan Harris	of 15132

FBI probing case of missing State Department laptop computer April 17, 2000 Web posted at: 12:28 p.m. EDT (1628 GMT) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A laptop computer that may have held notes from a speech given Saturday by market pundit Bob Brinker disappeared from the State Department and the FBI is investigating whether it was stolen, the State Department said Monday. The Washington Post said the computer was missing from the department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and contained highly classified information as well as intellectual property of the transplanted Nevada resident. The newspaper quoted a senior State Department official as saying the laptop's disappearance, from a supposedly secure conference room at the department, had set off an intense effort to recover the computer and a search for suspects, including web site operators who had been giving Brinker a hard time. Another person familiar with the incident said the missing computer contained code-word information, a classification higher than top secret, including sensitive intelligence information and plans to re-enter the market at some undisclosed date in the future. A

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