negative sentence with neither..nor?

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panosgr

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Hello,

I've seen the following sentence :
"Kostas' identity was not revealed to either Andrew nor Jim".
Is this correct?

I would have thought that the following two are correct and that the above is wrong :
"Kostas' identity was not revealed to either Andrew or Jim".
"Kostas' identity was revealed to neither Andrew nor Jim".

What do you think?
 

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I agree with you.

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And so do I.
 

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Thanks to all!
 

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