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major departure given the
#   country's constitutional guarantees for "secrecy of any means of communi-
#   cations."  According to activist Toshimaru Ogura, Japanese cops are
#   modeling their proposals on US wiretap law, specifically the 1994
#   Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The NSA helped
#   sculpt CALEA's language, which begs the question: Is Japan's wiretap bill
#   another one of the NSA's covert operations?


*   "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
*   http://www.aci.net/kalliste
*   
*   The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the government
*   corporation that insures deposits at U.S. member banks. The FDIC
*   improvement act of 1991 required the FDIC to study the costs and
*   feasibility of tracking every bank deposit in the U.S.
*   
*   The notion was it was necessary to compute bank deposit insurance
*   requirements in real time.
*   
*   Not everyone thought this was a good idea. The American Bankers'
*   Association noted it was inconceivable that such data would "be
*   used only by the FDIC in deposit insurance coverage functions."
*
*   Even though the FDIC argued against it, FinCEN then proposed in
*   its draft report to Congress in June 1993 a "Deposit Tracking
*   System" (DTS) that would also track deposits to, or withdrawals
*   from, U.S. bank accounts in real time. FinCen is the Financial
*   Crimes Enforcement Network agency.

#   Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, January 1989 issue
#
#   Al Bayse, Assistant Director of the FBI, said the FBI has developed an
#   artifi