POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT
The story of North Korea's producing the so-called super-notes, one-hundred dollar notes of near perfect quality, is an old one, but it is not necessarily true, as the author of this piece assumes.
There is another story that says it is the CIA manufacturing these super-notes.
Such an intelligence operation would serve two ends.
One, it is a new source of untraceable funds for the CIA. We know that in the past the CIA has used drugs and armaments as ways to obtain off-the-record funds.
Two, the notes, combined with the story this author repeats, provide one more excuse to beat-up on North Korea.
Just ask yourself whether it is likely that North Korea has the immensely complex technology for producing notes of this quality.
Then ask yourself whether this is the way the United States would behave if indeed it knew North Korea was the source of the bills.
