The researcher, the pope and the Stasi's friends in the west | World news | The Guardian Helmut Müller-Enbergs, visiting professor at Gotland University in Sweden, has managed to find out more about over a thousand of these people, using data found on the so-called Rosenholz discs. These are rudimentary CD-Roms containing snapshots of around 350,000 hugely sensitive Stasi records which somehow ended up in the hands of the CIA, before finally being returned to Germany in 2003 – albeit only those files pertaining to German citizens, a continuing source of frustration for the BStU. http://bit.ly/rK4spA Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/23/germany-stasi-west-pope-benedict?newsfeed=true See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/rK4spA+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra