What happened to this NY Times article on STOA and Echelon?

Does anyone have any idea what happened
to this article on STOA and Echelon?

http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/nytimes.htm

I cannot seem to find it in the NY Times
archives.  Is it really from 1998?  Could
it be from 1997?

Anyone been in contact with the author?

Ern

The search software at the NYT leaves much to be desired. If you
enter from the front page, it assumes you only want to search
TODAY's copy of the paper. You have to re-search and click on
the whole archives. Of course, that often yields too many
articles to wade through.

For speed, here's the index of Guissani's columns. Read them
all! (But don't collect them and post them to your own website.
That's copyright violation.)

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/indexeurobytes.html

Here's the article in question:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/euro/022498euro.html