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Subject: Re: Explaining currency design
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:52:05 -0400
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On 2025-04-24 2:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2025 at 12:32:35 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Will BTR1701 say they got thisall wrong?
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkq4cv5dH7I
> 
> Nope, he got it all right.
> 
> I had a particularly mysterious incident happen at LAX back in 2015, where CBP
> had stopped a guy traveling under a South Korean passport but had identified
> him through biometrics as being North Korean.

Could you elaborate on that please? It sounds like you're saying that 
eyeballs or fingerprints or whatever of North Koreans are unique to 
North Koreans thus identifying their origins reliably. That's not true 
as far as I know so I assume you were simplifying things a bit to keep 
the story short. Did you mean that this particular INDIVIDUAL was 
already known to the USSS or whatever databases you accessed? That would 
make more sense to me.

> He had five bricks of U.S. $100
> FRNs in his carry-on and it was genuine as near as they could tell. They
> called the USSS to run it by us. I was the USSS duty agent that week and I got
> the call. I ran the identifiers through our system and they came up as
> supernotes, so I hauled ass out to LAX and started an investigation and I was
> on the phone to U.S. Attorney in the process of drawing up an arrest warrant
> when my phone rang.
> 
> It was headquarters and the guy on the other end identified himself as the
> Deputy Director for Investigations and he told me to pack all the FRNs into
> the guy's carry-on and let him go on his way. To say that everything about the
> call was unusual was an understatement, so I told him that respectfully all I
> had was a voice on the other end of a phone telling me to turn a major
> international criminal suspect loose and that until I had some verification, I
> wasn't going to do that. He said he understood and told me to stand by. A
> minute later, my phone rang again and it was the Special Agent in Charge of
> L.A. who confirmed both the DDI's identity and told me to comply with his
> instructions. While I was taking that call, the CBP agent's phone also rang.
> It was the Director of CBP basically telling him to do the same thing and to
> purge all paperwork regarding the guy's detention.
> 
> So that's what we did. Gave him back about $250,000 in near-perfect
> counterfeits and put him back on a flight to Australia.
> 
> I was never told what it was all about. I suspect it either had something to
> with an ongoing HQ-level op and the guy was some kind of cooperating informant
> on his way to a buy or the State Department had some other irons in the fire
> with the Norks which my arresting that guy would have queered.
> 
> 
I wonder if an FOI request would reveal more details? Of course, the guy 
with the money might still be active so the FOI result might be almost 
entirely redacted.

You might do better with a quiet word to some friend within the USSS who 
has access to the info....

Of course you probably couldn't tell *us* because then you'd have to 
kill us ;-)


-- 
Rhino