I was just looking through a couple of the earliest messages on the 1996 CP archive file.  This was one email:

From cypherpunks@MHonArc.venona  Wed Dec 17 23:17:14 2003
From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 09:09:30 +0800
To: Brad Dolan <winkjr@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: CSPAN Currency Creation Hearings
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At 19:04 1/1/96, Brad Dolan wrote:
>I caught part of it.
>
>The general theme was,~"we're going to establish a `partnership' with
>digicash / crypto firms to ensure that our `legitimate law-enforcement
>needs' are designed into the products."~

I sincerely doubt that there will be any 'partnerships' between DigiCash
and law enforcement.


-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
   PGP encrypted mail preferred.

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On seeing this, it immediately occurred to me, suppose we had asked those people, "Okay, Sir, what ILLEGITIMATE law-enforcement needs" would you want us to include as well?"
Okay, I'm just in a funny mood tonight.
                 Jim Bell