tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3137246730421866659.post3125633711688265682..comments2023-10-09T06:54:04.099-06:00Comments on Past Times and Present Tensions: Market share and the past: part 4.John Hooker FSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10001080340384925879noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3137246730421866659.post-56795867216912059792016-06-01T14:03:13.707-06:002016-06-01T14:03:13.707-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.John Hooker FSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10001080340384925879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3137246730421866659.post-1984580131683085412016-06-01T14:01:59.885-06:002016-06-01T14:01:59.885-06:00Hi John,
With the terrorist group I was investiga...Hi John,<br /><br />With the terrorist group I was investigating, there would have been no more than one of them who was aware he was working for the KGB. That's fairly typical. Often, the real aims of the group and the nationality of its instigators is very different from what its members believe.<br /><br />It was also fairly typical for those offered jobs in communist countries to discover when they got there that actual membership in the Communist party was mandatory (although you would think that they should have guessed that from the start!).<br /><br />There are no friendly countries in Intelligence. Everyone spies on everyone else. People were sometimes recruited as university students for low-level jobs like phone-tapping. I found one university student in Calgary in 1970 who was tapping phones for the CIA. He showed up, uninvited, at a party and was flashing a big roll of money. So I grabbed a bottle of whisky and a couple of glasses and had a friendly chat with him. Even the lines between national/military intelligence and private sector intelligence are very blurry, indeed! Not a very nice business -- much slimier than what the James Bond movies portray.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />JohnJohn Hooker FSAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10001080340384925879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3137246730421866659.post-8592192800829968352016-06-01T08:13:28.699-06:002016-06-01T08:13:28.699-06:00Hello John:
The Communist ethic also encompassed ...Hello John:<br /><br />The Communist ethic also encompassed what they termed the, 'Long March Through the Institutions,' whereby sympathisers could be recruited - lecturers and teachers or anyone who had sway over students - could influence them favourably, cause dissension, and question values. Every aspect of life in the Free West was infiltrated. Of course, the excesses of Communism were never revealed, but instead held aloft as Utopia. <br /><br />I can't understand why someone might defect or betray his/her country to aid a Communist takeover of their Mother country for political reasons. I'm damned if I can forgive anyone who'd betray his fellow countrymen to such a fate for money, employment, or, worse, to improve their personal situations. <br /><br />Best<br /><br />John Howland<br />UK<br /> John Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752752229384757087noreply@blogger.com