Maybe Jim is referring to something that "Mr. Brietvik" may or may not have whispered in his ear.

Mr.Brietvik being one of those "Typos and other diversions" introduced as "a convenient enough smokescreen" to mask Jim's total ignorance of "the subject" under discussion. You Keith should know better than anyone else how much Jim just likes to "make stuff up" and then harp on about it as though it were fact.