Re: Derek Bond and Stolen IDs.

[Brian Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:48:23 +0100 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Bond
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  It seems Derek Sykes back in the early 1990s used the pseudonym
>  Derek Bond on a number of occasions (for fairly random reasons). The
>  FBI somehow picked up on this and, when my father visited the US,
>  attached a warning label to his passport details. This seems to have
>  then followed him around on his various travels after that so that,
>  in effect, he became the man they were looking for because it was his
>  passport details that were on the FBI records.

So the fault was with a system that allowed a label to be attached to a
given person without any proper checking being carried out that such a
label had any validity at all. It would appear to be safer to have no
identification documents rather than ones that are erroneously
associated with wrongdoers!

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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