--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> It's the same predisposition that leads people to think they're so
> important that the CIA actually has to spend it's time and energy to
> spy on them.
IMO, many have not looked at all sides of the CIA thing -- and thus
draw limited conclusions. My experience in teaching for a year in a
foreign country was:
i) many locals thought we may be CIA -- perhaps jokingly,
speculatively or seriously -- but in talking to good friends I made
there -- in private, they would confide that we being CIA was a
specualtive rift in the air -- the buzz in many circles.
ii) I found out years later (from one of the guys who married a
local girl, and had long-term strong business and social ties in the
upper levels of society in that country) that the local government, a
dictatorship -- so no pesky human rights issues to get in the way --
did keep detailed files on each of us (foreign TM teachers). Right
down to quite personal , um dating issues.
It did occur to me over the years -- and recently when watching that
excellent Michael Caine film, "The Quiet American" -- that the groups
of TMO Americans and Europeans in the 70's who flooded into foreign
countries world wide, WOULD be an excellent conduit for the CIA. Or
other foreign intelligence agencies. We had great "cover" to travel
anywhere in the country, meeting with locals at all levels of society
-- academic, religous, military, regional and national govt
administration, entertainers, businessmen, etc, flying off to Europe
at times, lots of international phone calls etc.
While I have no direct knowledge that such agencies did join our ranks
(in Associate 108 programs -- and similar), I find it quite plausible
that some did.
Or, the CIA might have gotten wind that some other foreign agencies
were using the TMO A108 program, so they sent some agents to
infiltrate to see what the other agnecies might be up to.
Or, knowing that the A108's were subject to detailed scrutiny by local
gov'ts, they may have seen this as an opportunity to recruit locals
embedded in the local gov'ts intelligence networks.
So, for a number of reasons, I find it plausible that the CIA or other
intelligence agencies were inside the TMO at times. This has nothing
to do with delusions of self-importance. To simply laugh this off as
delusions of self-importance -- is simplistic and missing quite a bit
of the picture.
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