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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 373966, member: 4626"]Excellent point; one of the big reasons the theory of North Korea being behind the supernotes doesn't hold much water. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lol... well there's speculation that the CIA is doing all kinds of things... (creating AIDS, causing earthquakes, etc.) people love coming up with various theories about what the CIA is up to... some may actually be true; even a broken clock manages to be right twice a day... but most are just screwball theories with no real (or imaginary for that matter) evidence to back them up. As for this particular theory, what would be the motivation? Distributing high quality counterfeits couldn't possibly benefit the CIA, a US government agency, in any way... if they need US currency for any reason it would probably be easier for them to get the real thing anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were theories at a time that the CIA was counterfeiting Iraqi dinars in order to destabilize their economy (like it needed any help!), but never really proven... it was known that the CIA likely produced propaganda leaflets that on one side looked like Iraqi money, but it wasn't intended to pass as real as the back side was used for various propaganda messages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 373966, member: 4626"]Excellent point; one of the big reasons the theory of North Korea being behind the supernotes doesn't hold much water. Lol... well there's speculation that the CIA is doing all kinds of things... (creating AIDS, causing earthquakes, etc.) people love coming up with various theories about what the CIA is up to... some may actually be true; even a broken clock manages to be right twice a day... but most are just screwball theories with no real (or imaginary for that matter) evidence to back them up. As for this particular theory, what would be the motivation? Distributing high quality counterfeits couldn't possibly benefit the CIA, a US government agency, in any way... if they need US currency for any reason it would probably be easier for them to get the real thing anyway. There were theories at a time that the CIA was counterfeiting Iraqi dinars in order to destabilize their economy (like it needed any help!), but never really proven... it was known that the CIA likely produced propaganda leaflets that on one side looked like Iraqi money, but it wasn't intended to pass as real as the back side was used for various propaganda messages.[/QUOTE]
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