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You must not know much about history.

In Argentina specifically, there was Juan Peron. The broadway play and movie "Evita" is about his wife. I once read her biography.

Some astronomers I once met were at cerro tololo inter-american observatory in chile when some heavily armed men turned up to look after the nearby radio towers.

Conspiracy theories abound with respect to JFK's assassination.

No one really believes that communists torched the Reichstag.

On December 8, 1941, the pearl harbor base commander found a letter from the US state department in his mailbox, to let him know that the japanese might give him trouble sometime soon.

"Gentlemen do not read each others' mail.". That was the stated reason that the US stopped its codebreaking work. I dont believe it really did. The best way to read a gentleman's mail is if he doesnt think he needs to encrypt it.

Josef Stalin once knocked over a bank, then gave all the loot to Lenin.



With all due respect... What the hell are you talking about?


One of my great fears is that posts like the one you responded to turn out, years later, to be 100% legitimate, despite how weird they sound now.


Every starving writer just loves to hear about it when a fan appreciates his work.


I think his ultimate point was that embik is being naive. That it is just a simple coverup with a thin, obviously untrue excuse.


Have a read of the parent post that mine is a reply to.




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