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[enaxor]

When I tried to post the scans, they were way too big. so thank you thebruce for the help.

Here's a recap of the find. My husband and I drove back from Vancouver BC today and luckily got to Ladd Circle just after 5pm. Ladd Circle is like a small park in the middle of a neighborhood. We walked around the circle and searched in the bushes for several minutes with no luck, I was afraid someone else found them. We were just about to give up, but my husband went over to read a plaque about William Ladd and I found the envelope hidden behind the plaque.

[ancalime]

I took a look at that redacted part to see if there was anything readable underneath, but there're no actual letters coming clear.

[thebruce]

viewing the scanned (and edited btw) images won't reveal much. The contrast was boosted a lot to bring out the text, so any little variations in the blackout, if any were caught by the scanner at all, would now be lost.

Hopefully enaxor at some point will see what she can find as best she can with a close look...

[Weyrlady]

I asked enaxor to send me the raw scans of the three sheets, and the text is visible given the right contrast enhancements. Here's what I make of it.

[enaxor]

[duncan]

So mainly the main plot is now known :

The UN requested a shaddy group ( presumably Landa , for which we are working ) to take control over the internet from the United States of America ( this yields with the tunisia trailhead , where the WSIS was held last year and where the main fought was over ICANN and control of internet domains ) . The shaddy group though is planning not to hand over control to the UN but instead use it for their own profit .

At some moment we may be asked to spread the program that will help to shut down the isps ( virtually I suppose ) , since from the letter it is already completed and the cameleon way to distribute it has been found .

ETA : btw , Black Bag Operations was coined to describe a practice used by the American FBI between 1942 and 1967 where FBI agents illegally entered the offices of targeted individuals and photographed information found in their records. Today it is used to describe any covert activity concerned with intelligence gathering, surveillance, or espionage. The phrase can be heard on the Watergate tapes.

Reference : http://blackbagops.com/
another reference : http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/bboperations.htm

ETA 2 : the take over the internet is scheduled for january 1 , 2007

ETA 3 : I suppose there is no secret ink in the letters !

[thebruce]

bah! I knew I shouldn't have written over the originals enaxor sent me

hehe as soon as I realized I forgot to try editing the blacked out text after I deleted the originals, I kicked myself I just shrugged and didn't bother asked for the originals again, hehe. Good work ancalime!

[duncan]

Did anyone send an email to John Q , the inside gamer ? I didn't see any comment on it and since he was the one to hide the enveloppe for us in Ladd Circle , maybe it's wise to inform him that we got it !

[Weezel]

[duncan]

Hehe , well , I'm going to send him an email later when I'm home , I'm like an insider here at work and can't send emails profusely , gotta ask him some clarifications on that letter .