source file: m1447.txt
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 23:01:56 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: weird stories

From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)

>"A former Nazi propagandist
>named Hans Scherbius says important wartime data collected by German
>spies was transmitted through the 12 tone music of New Viennese School
>composers."

   That's one of those stories that might be difficult to prove one way or
the other, but I certainly wouldn't discount the possibility that its true.
If I remember correctly, the circumstances of Alban Berg's death look
perhaps a little bit too much like a "he knows too much" kind of affair.