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That is wild. How did he have time to maintain TrueCrypt while doing all of that crime?


Paul was what people call a 10x programmer. He was highly prolific.

The book Mastermind goes into this a bit.

So do some old web posts straight from Paul himself, if you know where and if they are still up.


Has anyone looked up the details of all of this? The DEA has been notorious for arresting people overseas and indicting them for just participating(i.e. being in the same room) in conversations about drug trafficking even if those conversations were between DEA agents.

Just a quick glimpse at the Wikipedia page actually talks about 5 drugs that seem to me like over the counter medicine. What's kinda interesting to me skimming this and looking at the references is that the assassins and a lot of the operations were Israelis and the whole thing was run from Tel Aviv, but there's zero reference to any of those people. They are just called the Israeli business partners.


I noticed that US fed agencies work like that - use someone for their own games and make it looks like success job for own careers.

Some cops tried it in my country as well. These cops recieved a middle finger from the court.

Edit: The courts called it 'provocation by police' and everyone was freed.


I’m on mobile but there’s more info on the Israelis in the Mastermind book. Some of them still have public LinkedIn profiles.




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