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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Explaining currency design
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:28:04 -0000 (UTC)
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On Apr 24, 2025 at 11:52:05 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

> 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.

No, his individual biometrics were already known to the U.S government. He was
someone whose movements were being tracked.

>>  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 ;-)