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Text Box: The Edgars are in! 2010 Edgar Award winners: Best Novel: “The Last Child” by John Hart Best First Novel: In the “Shadow of Gotham” by Stefanie Pintoff Best Paperback Original: “Body Blows” by Marc Strange Best Fact Crime: “Columbine” by Dave Cullen Best Critical/Biographical: “The Lineup:” The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by

Text Box: Otto Penzler Best Short Story: "Amapola"--Phoenix Noir by Luis Alberto Urrea The annual prize – named after Edgar Allan Poe – is given by the Mystery Writers of America to the best mystery authors. It has been given annually since 1945. *** I’m late again! I’ve been on the road for a good part of April. That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it. ***

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Text Box: The pen is mightier than the sword! Disinformation is mostly commonly described as false information created by governments in wartime for military purposes and by totalitarian governments for political purposes in peacetime. It can be a powerful tool for special interest groups also. Rumors, lies, and other forms of disinformation were made public by the Soviet

Text Box: Union to discredit the United States, the latter being the context in which the word is generally applied. The KGB coined the Russian word dezinformatsiya; it came into the English language as disinformation. The technique of disinformation goes back at least to 1918 with the end of World War I. Disinformation as a KGB weapon began in 1923 when

Text Box: I. S. Inshlikht, deputy chairman of the GPU, then the name of the KGB, proposed the establishment of a special disinformation office to conduct active intelligence operations. ***

Text Box: Special points of interest: Edgar Winners! Disinformation ?

Know your Police	2
What’s new in Computers?	2
What’s your Verdict verdict?	2
Writers Corner	3
Recipes to die for:	3
What’s new in Identity Theft?	3
Contact Info	4
Closing Comments	4

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May 2010

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