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According to Cmdr. Richard Schiff, a Navy lawyer who appeared with Flynn, the Yorktown and Caron were operating off the Crimean peninsula in what the Navy calls its "assertion of rights" program--an effort to periodically steam through contested waters to emphasize freedom of navigation on the high seas...
Ordinary stamps were then substituted for the valuable ones. Six days later, 85 of the misprints were sold through a New Jersey dealer, Jacques Schiff. (The CIA staffers had attempted to sell 86, but one of the stamps was torn and, consequently, worthless.) A well-known trader of misprinted stamps, Schiff refuses to disclose how much the spooks were paid for their goods. Since then, however, Schiff has brokered three sales of the stamps. In the last transaction, 50 stamps were sold to the Mystic Stamp Co. for nearly $1 million, or $20,000 a stamp...
...however, believe that each of the employees kept a single stamp for himself. Jim Ellenberg, owner of a stamp- and coin-collecting shop in suburban Washington, insists he recently gained possession of one of the inverted candlestick stamps from a CIA man. Says Bill Bergstrom, office manager of the Schiff firm: "It is obvious one, all or some ((of the CIA workers)) were holding the rest...
...Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Samuel L. Hayes III said Baldwin's appointment will bring a wide-ranging young talent to the faculty, and relects the School's commitment to increasing the presence of women professors...
...Schiff added that because there are much