Re: Explaining currency design

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 ;-)