Bob,

Yeah sure, everybody keeps 1945 newspapers handy just in case they need
to hide a radio with a swastika on it..

Don't you think you're pushing your disposition at not accepting things
for what they seem a bit far?

If anything newspapers stay in circulation for an exceptionally short
time - as people usually throw them away, if not they're usually kept
for a special reason, not for stashing away goods in a far future -, so
I think Ron is quite right in dating the concealment shortly after the
issue.


"Robert L. Schuyler" schreef:
>
> Ron:
>         I am not dismissing the story or the fact that the item
> is an important artifact. I am dubious about assuming the person
> in the house was a German agent. The 1945 papers are a terminous
> post quem - could have been put there at any time after 1945.
>
>         Who was he talking to - Japanese allies? Although long
> distant U-Boats did reach Japan I have never heard of any off the
> West Coast.
>
>         To my understanding almost all German agents in the US were
> picked up before or right after our entrance into the war.
>
>         Enough on this one. See you in Mobile.
>                                                         RLS
>
> At 06:41 PM 7/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 7/10/01 3:37:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> >[log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> ><< P.S. I do not think Berlin [or Tokyo] was ever on the other end
> > of that radio.
> >  >>
> >
> >Bob, Did I fail to mention the house is on a hill in the Sunset Cliffs area
> >of Point Loma? This place has a fantastic view of the Pacific Ocean, which is
> >the place where at least 65 submarine sightings occurred during World War II.
> >I find it astonishing you want to dismiss this story as fiction.
> >
> >
> Robert L. Schuyler
> University of Pennsylvania Museum
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> Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
>
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