[IP] "Little Red Book" story a hoax
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From: Steve Lamont <spl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 24, 2005 10:42:24 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: "Little Red Book" story a hoax
[Professor Farber: an important followup to the "Little Red Book"
story you carried on your IP list a few days ago. I hope that you see
fit to forward this. -- spl]
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-24-05/a01lo719.htm
Federal agents' visit was a hoax
Student admits he lied about Mao book
By AARON NICODEMUS, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been
visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for "The Little
Red Book" by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story.
The 22-year-old student tearfully admitted he made the story up to
his
history professor, Dr. Brian Glyn Williams, and his parents, after
being confronted with the inconsistencies in his account.
Had the student stuck to his original story, it might never have been
proved false.
But on Thursday, when the student told his tale in the office of
UMass
Dartmouth professor Dr. Robert Pontbriand to Dr. Williams,
Dr. Pontbriand, university spokesman John Hoey and The Standard-
Times,
the student added new details.
The agents had returned, the student said, just last night. The two
agents, the student, his parents and the student's uncle all signed
confidentiality agreements, he claimed, to put an end to the matter.
But when Dr. Williams went to the student's home yesterday and
relayed
that part of the story to his parents, it was the first time they had
heard it. The story began to unravel, and the student, faced with the
truth, broke down and cried.
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