One SlimVirgin question answered, while two more emerge in its place. Options

[WordBomb]

There's been a bit of speculation as to the nature of the long-deleted Slimv account.

As I mentioned last week, I have several database dumps, which I've been painstakingly reviewing in search of insights on this and the many other odd deletions made by Musical Linguist in early June of 2006.

Trust me when I say: there is some wild stuff in there.

Wild.

The main SlimVirgin content you'll have to wait for, but Slimv I shall share with you now.

It would appear that Slimv made a single edit in her career, logged November 5, 2004 to the article on Mordacai Vanunu, the guy who revealed the existence of Israel's nuclear weapons program in the mid-80s.

When Vanunu squealed, he was smart enough to do so from England, but that didn't stop the Mossad from capturing and imprisoning him in Israel for 18 years.

Slimv's contribution to the article provided some very unique insights into the role Sunday Mirror owner Robert Maxwell might have had in revealing Vanunu's treason.

Though it's been deleted, you can still see the substance of Slimv's addition by looking at the diffs that previously surrounded it.

When you do, ignore every thing above Line 15, as this is the edit that followed Slimv's. The changes you see below Line 15 were made by Slimv.

Remember, Musical Linguist said that deletion was a result of personally identifying information included in the edit. Either that's the case, or it's not. If it is: whoa. If it's not: whoa.

It's also worth noting that Musical Linguist deleted at least one edit from the Robert Maxwell article at the same time she was deleting the Vanunu edit and Slimv's user page.

One more thing.

Six days after Slimv made her one and only edit, followed a few hours later by SlimVirgin's inaugural contribution, two things happened: Mordacai Vanunu was re-arrested, and Yasser Arafat assumed room temperature. That was a busy week for Israeli intelligence.

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[BobbyBombastic]

As I read the newest edit supplied by WordBomb last night, this stood out:

First, although America blamed Libya publicly for the bombing for the first time after August 1990, insiders knew from around October 1989 that the focus of the investigation had turned to Libya.

Which constitutes original research, etc, but who is an insider here? Slim? What kind of insider? This need to discuss inside knowledge is not compatible with someone in fear of their life for being exposed as a spy. It rings true Brandt's theory of a former insider remembering back to the "good old days".

This actually points more toward her being a "reporter who interviewed CIA" than "CIA agent".

Why? There was a point in time where I was worried that ASIO were going to murder me in relation to my knowledge of PA and hence whenever I wrote about it I claimed that I was interviewing an unknown someone in relation to it.

Slim has never said that she has interviewed anyone, to my knowledge, and she has never confirmed that she was a journalist. All she claims, in a roundabout way, is insider knowledge. This suggests that she doesn't mind so much keeping herself in a grey area, and may actually find it quite "sexy" that people do/did believe she was something more than she is/was.

In fact, it was my own personal knowledge. I did this for my own personal safety.

I have it on your word that you are not an intelligence agent, so it doesn't surprise me that you would do that. Suggesting that SlimV the intelligence agent would do the same thing as you, the non intelligence agent, then saying that she is an intelligence agent because she did the same thing you would is not linear thinking. A decent agent, with convictions, would not even discuss this, and even if they did, it would not be via anonymous edits to WP claiming insider knowledge. This smacks of a person that wants to show off what they know, a quality not becoming of someone in intel/counter intel, etc.

I understand why these edits were oversighted, as they add evidence to Linda Mack the journalist, but it is contrary to Linda Mack the intelligence agent. Linda Mack the intelligence agent is the story that made slashdot, because it is the sexier story. The coverup has created more controversy than the original deed.

If anyone involved in this were in intelligence they would be fired, and folks like this get fired a little differently than you and I. In my mind, the idea of Linda Mack the intelligence agent can be put to bed, but the unwitting (dupe) asset or agenda pushing activist remains, among other possibilities.

[jorge]

If anyone involved in this were in intelligence they would be fired, and folks like this get fired a little differently than you and I. In my mind, the idea of Linda Mack the intelligence agent can be put to bed, but the unwitting (dupe) asset or agenda pushing activist remains, among other possibilities.

If she was just your bog standard journalist why does she (as far as anyone can find) only appear to have published one article? Has she been writing under a pseudonym?

[BobbyBombastic]

If anyone involved in this were in intelligence they would be fired, and folks like this get fired a little differently than you and I. In my mind, the idea of Linda Mack the intelligence agent can be put to bed, but the unwitting (dupe) asset or agenda pushing activist remains, among other possibilities.

If she was just your bog standard journalist why does she (as far as anyone can find) only appear to have published one article? Has she been writing under a pseudonym?

There are unexciting possibilities one can explore, but I do not know this to be fact, although I agree with you that's all I know of. Perhaps she did write under a pseudonym. But let's not forget that she seems to be an emotional person. For instance, she did drop out after the plane went down. For her to simply up and quit journalism due to an emotional issue seems likely.

Daniel Brandt may be able to address this, although I sometimes wonder if there are some things he is holding close to his chest... (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/biggrin.gif)