--- In [email protected], "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Carter may not have been a fan of new agey programs in > the 70s due to personal background and political pressures, > but that's very different from saying he ordered the CIA > to illegally focus on infiltrating and destroying a then > popular domestic organization. That goes against both > his religious and political leanings.
No doubt. But there does seem to be pretty clear evidence he had a special animus against TM. I suggested in another post that that may have been because he thought MMY was surreptitiously trying to convert folks to Hinduism, and it was the perceived *deception* that angered Carter. Speculating freely: As far as the CIA is concerned, it wouldn't surprise me if the CIA *did* infiltrate briefly after the TM-Sidhis came out, not to destroy the organization but to make sure we hadn't actually developed any unusual abilities (there were elements in the CIA that were very heavily into the paranormal), and if we had, to keep the our enemies from getting hold of them. I suspect it would have been the invisibility claim that would have most intrigued them because of its potential usefulness in intelligence operations. It's also not impossible, it seems to me, that the CIA thought the TMO might itself be a cover for a spying operation. This was at the height of the cold war, after all, and if *anybody* was paranoid, it was the CIA. At any rate, if either or both of these were the case, it's not hard to see how the CIA presence would have been connected in TMers' imaginations with Carter's known dislike of the TMO and understood to be a function of an attempt on his part to destroy it, when it was actually just the CIA doing its cold war thing. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
