Cherrystone offers a block of four CIA Invert stamps for 55,000

Cia Invert Stamp. Regency Superior Stamp Auction Catalog 2000 Danzig Zeppelin Covers CIA The CIA donated the recovered inverts to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., where it joined an invert earlier donated by Don Sundman. The stamp was from the middle of the original sheet of 100 stamps, and so had perforations on each side from where it was separated from other stamps

It should be noted that five inverts from the CIA Invert pane had been sold by the post office before the CIA employee bought the remaining 95 The damaged stamp and the remaining 85 examples were sold to New Jersey stamp auctioneer Jacques C

United States 1979 "CIA" Invert Stamp Auctions

But the details were cloaked in secrecy, hidden in a maze of deception that took two years to unravel. But the details were cloaked in secrecy, hidden in a maze of deception that took two years to unravel. Those five stamps were likely used and were consigned to trash cans

John Hotchner. Four returned their stamps and kept their jobs, four refused and were fired, while the ninth claimed that he had lost his stamp and remained a CIA employee Ironically, the CIA Invert occurred because the BEP, in an effort to cut corners, stopped cutting corners.

Top 10 philatelic sales of the first half of 2020 World Stamp News. Each employee took an invert, and one stamp was damaged when being torn from the pane The stamp was from the middle of the original sheet of 100 stamps, and so had perforations on each side from where it was separated from other stamps