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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 20:24:08 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Sports Illustrated / Platt quotes

To anyone who has read the current issue of Sports
Illustrated:

My name appears several times in the feature on Ted Williams
and Alcor. I hope readers will understand that the only thing
I said personally to the journalist was that I did not recall
details of a document which Larry Johnson said that he wrote,
and I preferred not to comment on that topic.

Other material attributed to me was derived from two sources:

1. A private memo which I distributed to nine people. A copy
appears to have been transmitted to Sports Illustrated
without my knowledge or consent.

2. Excerpts from informal conversations. These were taped
without my knowledge or consent.

I have spent a lot of time, often as an unpaid volunteer,
trying to advance cryonics during the past 12 years. It pains
me that a few fragments of text have now been used for the
opposite purpose. I regret also that someone whom I thought
of as a friend appears to have deceived me on a prolonged and
systematic basis, along with all Alcor employees and many
independent contractors and volunteers who have worked hard
and selflessly for the organization.

--Charles Platt

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