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In addition to the information that Mr. Lintner provided below, readers
can see from the following message that was posted from the OKKAR account
to soc.culture.burma that there is no difference between OKKAR and KMTTO.

On 17 Aug 1997, OKKAR66127 wrote:

> Dear SCB readers,
>
>       Yesterday, I was not feeling well and I asked my friend to send
> Information Sheet to SCB. Due to the serious head-ache I failed to tell
> him which screen name to use and he used KMTTO. Sorry for this
> inconvinience.
>
> ----------------------
>
>
>             INFORMATION SHEET
>             *********************
> NO.A-0094(I)                        DATE. 16-8-97
>
> (1) No 2 Mining Enterprise, local company agree on JV gold
>        prospecting in Myitkyina
>
>       No 2 Mining Enterprise of the Ministry of Mines and Sea-Sun-Star
> Co Ltd, formed with Kachin nationals, this morning signed an agreement
to
> undertake joint-venture gold prospecting along the Ayeyawady in Mankhein
> region in Myitkyina Township.




On 3 Apr 1998 lintner@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Dear Burmanetters,
> 
> As a journalist following events in Burma I think it is important that 
> the BurmaNet remains a source of factual information, and not a forum 
> for mud-slinging. However, it is equally important that we in the media 
> know who we are dealing with, and this is where Okkar's identity becomes 
> an important issue. No journalist can quote his material without knowing 
> who he is (regardless of his claiming that he is "a Karen elder", "a 
> Shan elder", "a Bangkok-based professor" or whatever).
> 
> 1) It is worth noting that press releases from the Burmese embassy in 
> Washington are usually headed "From: Thuriya." See for instance the 
> latest press releases posted by Okkar. No doubt "Thuriya" is an 
> information/intelligence officer at the Washington embassy who sends 
> these press releases on to Okkar to be posted on the net.
> 
> 2) Usually, no recipient is named for "Thuriya's" messages, but 
> Ambassador Tin Winn's letter to the editor of the Washington Post is an 
> exception. The heading, as Okkar posted it on the Net, says:
> 
> "Subj: The Letter to the Editor (Washington Post)  (sic)
> Date:  98-3-17 16:59:34 EST
> From: Thuriya
> To:     KMTTO"
> 
> Thus, KMTTO is the source of Okkar's material, or more precisely, it 
> must be Okkar himself since there is no other e-mail entry between 
> "Thuriya", "KMTTO" and, on the Net, "OKKAR." So who is KMTTO? An address 
> list compiled by Bain & Associates on behalf of their client "Zay Kabar 
> Co. Ltd Account #16" contains, among many other names, the following:
> 
> "Lt.Col. Hla Min
> 011-951-246981 (office)
> 011-951-246980 (fax)
> KMTTO@xxxxxxx"
> 
> Lt.Col Hla Min is the chief information officer of the Office of 
> Strategic Studies (OSS) in Rangoon, which is a "think-tank" run by Lt. 
> Gen. Khin Nyunt and the DDSI. I hope this clarifies matters. For us in 
> the media, it would be preferable if "Okkar" posted his messages and 
> statements under the name of the OSS, or the Washington embassy. In that 
> way, we could actually use (and quote) their material.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Bertil Lintner
> Bangkok
> 
>