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To: Snowshoe who wrote (16806)	1/19/2002 2:07:23 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Quite. It would of course be shocking and dramatic if Monica was ever heard on that bed in the airplane, talking in Chinese, moaning in Arabic, and swearing in Yiddish, with one native speaker from each land:0) about what she did to the missing Enron files. Drama, nothing like it to pep up a slow month. Chugs, Jay

To: Snowshoe who wrote (16806)	1/19/2002 2:10:25 AM
From: Climber	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<It seems that we used to look for communists under every bed, and now we are looking for them in the beds!>> Since it's the weekend, some OT... I remember years ago staying at the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow, and having fun counting the listening devices in the ceiling while I lay in bed. It wasn't as if the mics were particularly well hidden, in fact the opposite was true. "They" wanted the "guests" to appreciate how much we were being surveilled. Later, when we were shooting footage on the street, and the KGB took us under their wing for an hour or so, we were all treated quite decently because they seemed to know exactly what our purpose was (a film on the impact of "perestroika"), though they did want to look at our wireless microphones and check what frequencies we were transmitting at. I found it all somewhat amusing, the whole ham-handed obviousness of it all, though I wouldn't want to live like that for any length of time. Climber