i never knew Eric O'Neill got a taste of the craft and wisely departed; breach was an entertaining reminder of the "most criminal worldwide institution". perhaps, like the proverbial frog in a pot, the lucre of lies and power is subtle and sweet, betraying the bitterness beneath gradients of incremental compromise. """ A4 writes: Cryptome: There are no ex-spies or ex-spy agents: All remain forever active and lie about being ex as they lie about what they did and continue to do. There is no exit from spyworld only variations of disguise. I read this in cryptome today and it makes me puzzled: did somebody piss you off? Or is this the a nugget of distilled wisdom from somebody else? __________ Cryptome: Spies and ex-spies are required by terms of employment and training to lie, deceive, betray, commit crimes, and keep it secret. If they cannot convincingly lie and break laws without getting caught under all kinds of conditions as taught and tested in the US at the Farm, they will not be hired. They lie to families and friends, to everybody not in spyworld and often in spyworld too as a test and as a duty. They are experts at appearing to be what they are not. It is a common spy tradecraft to claim to be an ex-spy or ex-agent, aggrieved, ready to spill secrets, their managers feigning offense, blessing the spew by invoking national security threats, pretending the miscreant is a rogue. No spy or ex-spy ever tells the full story, only offers enticing tales that mesmerize the gullible and attempts to outwit accomplished doubters, whether other spies, agents, journalists, oversight committees, investigative commissions or the public. None are ever free to tell all they know, and face severe penalties if not death for telling more selected secrets than allowed to lend credence to their deceptions. So come the orchestrated dissenters, scholars, novelists, confessors, professors, exposers of perfidy and anonymous leakers, dispensing plausible disinformation purpose-made. That's the deal spies and agents sign on to and cannot ever escape, and are told so at the time of engagement, not that many want out of the privileges such as that provided by the bountifully bloated US Intelligence Community Management Fund which bribes sealed lips, most assuredly for retirees and exes continuing to work their undercover stations. Anybody who claims to be a spy or ex-spy is a person unable to tell the truth, and gets paid and pensioned for well-crafted accounts of what is not, what to fear, what to doubt, who to distrust. Analyze the Association For Intelligence Officers (AFIO), http://www.afio.org and numerous similar organizations around the planet for what they tell and what they conceal in open deception. The pervasive lies of spyworld -- officers, agents, contractors and overseers -- undermine and corrupt culture, language, trust, law and government. It is the most criminal worldwide institution of the time. """ http://www.cryptome.org/ and http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/dcid17.htm