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Subject: [Leica] RUSSIAN KGB leica?"
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Apr 11 17:25:28 2006
References: <75f6a0175f86c2.75f86c275f6a01@shaw.ca>

Uh...like maybe CIA?

GREG LORENZO wrote:

>Ted Grant writes in part:
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>>Sunday at the Vancouver camera swap meet Peter Kline pointed out the 
>>"Russian Leica" I had to sell was engraved with NKGB and some 
>>other Russian script. 
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>Hi Ted,
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>It should be NKGB which is the acronym for the People's Commissariat for 
>State Security. Otherwise known as the Soviet Secret Police with the 
>responsibility for liquidating enemies of the state. Think German Gestapo 
>and possibly worse.
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>Regards,
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>Greg
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