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I can only find half the correspondence with the photographer, who as noted, does not want his name disclosed. However, here's what I found in my archives.

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'''Reply''':
    > Dear Sir,

    > Thank you for your message and your interest for this picture (which has already interested many peoples around the world!). If you can send me a copy of your text, I will be glad to give you my OK for the use of the pictures, but I need to see the text first. If this text is convenient with the picture, I will send it to you with better resolution (300dpi).

    > Waiting for your reply, I send you my best regards.

    > (name redacted)

----> Message du 11/09/05 02:09
> De : "joshua"
> A : xxxx@xxxxxx.com
> Copie � :
> Objet : Re: Picture of N8068V
>
> While Wikipedia is a work-in-progress, meaning text is
> often edited, the most current rendition of our
> article on the vessel is available at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N8068V and I've copied it
> below for you. If you wish to add, or correct,
> anything in the article, I'm glad to point out that
> wikipedia is open-source and any changes you'd like to
> see made are as simple as that.
> The executive jet with the tail number N44982
> (formerly N8068V, N379P and originally N581GA) is
> rumored to be a US Department of Defense prisoner
> transport, also known as "Guantan�mo Bay Express". The
> craft is rumored to be a transporter of suspected
> terrorists to undisclosed locations for so-called
> "extraordinary rendition", i.e., delivery of detainees
> to undisclosed foreign or secret locations for
> advanced interrogation.
>
> According to an in-depth investigation [1] into the
> worldwide network of detention and interrogation
> facilities employed in the War on Terror, by the
> British Guardian newspaper, (March 2005):
> We were able to chart the toing and froing of the
> private executive jet used at [an abduction in Sweden]
> partly through the observations of plane-spotters
> posted on the web and partly through a senior source
> in the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence agency
> (ISI). It was a Gulfstream V Turbo, tailfin number
> N379P; its flight plans always began at an airstrip in
> Smithfield, North Carolina, and ended in some of the
> world's hot spots. It was owned by Premier Executive
> Transport Services, incorporated in Delaware, a brass
> plaque company with nonexistent directors, hired by
> American agents to revive an old CIA tactic from the
> 1970s, when agency men had kidnapped South American
> criminals and flown them back to their own countries
> to face trial so that justice could be rendered. Now
> "rendering" was being used by the Bush administration
> to evade justice.
>
> Robert Baer, a CIA case officer in the Middle East
> until 1997, told us how it works. "We pick up a
> suspect or we arrange for one of our partner countries
> to do it. Then the suspect is placed on civilian
> transport to a third country where, let's make no
> bones about it, they use torture. If you want a good
> interrogation, you send someone to Jordan. If you want
> them to be killed, you send them to Egypt or Syria.
> Either way, the US cannot be blamed as it is not doing
> the heavy work."
>
> The first public mention of the Gulfstream appeared
> six weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, when a Pakistani
> newspaper reported that a Yemeni citizen, Jamil Qasim
> Saeed Mohammed, a 27-year-old microbiology student at
> the University of Karachi, had been spirited aboard
> the plane at Quaid-e-Azam International Airport by
> Pakistani security officers in the early hours of Oct.
> 23, 2001.
>
> The executive jet with the tail number N379P was again
> brought to public attention by Swedish TV4's
> documentary, "The broken promise", aired 17 May 2004.
> The documentary claimed that the expulsion of two men
> - ordered by the Cabinet - to Egypt on 18 December
> 2001 was carried out by hooded US agents. The plane
> booked by the Swedish Security Police (S�PO) was
> cancelled when another plane arrived - N379P - a
> Gulfstream V executive jet supplied by the firm
> (Premiere executive transport services inc)which works
> exclusively for the US Defence Department.[2]
>
> Later on when the Gulfstreams's log books came into
> the journalist hands the wider scope became clear:
>
> Analysis of the plane's flight plans, covering
> more than two years, shows that it always departs from
> Washington DC. It has flown to 49 destinations outside
> America, including the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in
> Cuba and other US military bases, as well as Egypt,
> Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, Afghanistan, Libya and
> Uzbekistan.
>
> Witnesses have claimed that the suspects are
> frequently bound, gagged and sedated before being put
> on board the planes, which do not have special
> facilities for prisoners but are kitted out with
> tables for meetings and screens for presentations and
> in-flight films."
>
> The Central Intelligence Agency has declined to
> discuss the plane. But one retired CIA officer said
> that he understood the Gulfstream had been operated by
> the Joint Special Operations Command, an interagency
> unit that organizes counterterrorist operations in
> conjunction with the CIA and military special forces.
>
> Other speculations point towards the Strategic Support
> Branch
>
> Hobbyist plane spotters reporting the planes
> whereabouts somewhat conforms with the flight logs.
> [edit]
>
> Details
>
> Naming history:
>
> N379P was originally N581GA. It became N379P in 2000
> when it was acquired by Premier Executive Transport
> Services later in December 2003 it became N8068V. And
> in Dec 1 2004 it was renamed N44982 and ownership was
> transferred to -Bayard Foreign Marketing of Portland,
> Ore
>
>
> * Registration:
> o Tail number N8068V
> o Serial Number: 581
> o Registration Type: Corporation
> o Certificate Issue Date: 02/08/2000
> o Mode S Code 52575653
> * Aircraft
> o Aircraft Type: Fixed Wing Multi-Engine
> o Manufacturer Name: GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE
> o MFR Year 1999
> o Model: G-V
> o Engine Type : Turbo-Jet
> o Engine Manufacturer: BMW ROLLS
> Classification Standard
> o Engine Model: BR 700 SERIES Category
> Transport
> * Registered Owner:
> o Name: PREMIERE EXECUTIVE TRANSPORT
> SERVICES INC
> o Street 339 WASHINGTON ST STE 202
> o City: DEDHAM State MASSACHUSETTS
> o Zip Code: 02026-1815
> o County: NORFOLK
> o Country: UNITED STATES
>
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'''Response''':
I have suspected it was again for that story!

OK, this is a picture, but please, don't put my name beside it.

Thank you and have a nice day.

(name redacted)