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...associate deputy director in charge of investigations. Those countries include Britain, West Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, according to Courtney. The consultant has developed a few tricks for gauging whether foreign spies are eavesdropping on his corporate clients. In one scheme, he instructs his client to transmit a fake cable informing its European office of a price increase. If the client's competitor in that country boosts its price to the level mentioned in the cable, the jig is up. "You just spoof 'em," Courtney says...
...their trips more carefully. Result: up to half the estimated 3 million illegals entering the U.S. successfully each year -- perhaps 25% of them permanently -- are now smuggler assisted. The sordid trade reaps as much as $1 billion in annual revenues and uses such tools as safe-house hotels, bribes, fake documents and even involuntary servitude...
...Filipinos into the U.S. over a two-year period ending with his arrest in 1988. Dulay cashed in on the Special Agricultural Workers program, which gave legal status to farm workers who could claim at least 90 days of employment in the U.S. prior to 1986. Dulay used fake passports to bring small groups of Filipinos to Los Angeles (and sometimes to New York City and Chicago). He then transported them to a farm in central California for an extensive orientation program that included physicals, a package of back-dated documents, tours of farms and briefings on how to answer...
...sieve. It requires only that the boss examine any two of 17 proofs of citizenship, some of which, baptismal certificates for example, have thousands of acceptable variations. This has produced a cottage industry in bogus documents. The INS, which estimates that more than 500,000 aliens have used fake papers, is now confiscating more than 10,000 such documents annually (plus 5,000 smuggler-owned cars) just at the main San Diego border crossing. Illegals without fake documents often work instead at newly proliferating sweatshops. A recent Government study estimates that as many as 7,000 sweatshops operate...
Directing a film about Jim Morrison and the Doors, he applied fake Indian pictographs to a cavern in the Mojave Desert. They were supposed to be easily erasable. They weren...