-- At 08:06 AM 3/4/2001 +0000, drevil@sidereal.kz wrote:
Background: Opus Dei ("God's Work") is a Catholic order (or cult, as its detractors would call it) which emphasizes strict obedience of its members, close supervision of many aspects of its members' lives, and a certain degree of secretiveness about its own activities.
It is known that FBI Director Louis Freeh is a member of Opus Dei, and he sends one of his sons to an Opus Dei school.
Interestingly, former agent Robert Hanssen was also an Opus Dei member. This is peculiar because Opus Dei is stridently anti-communist, and yet Hanssen was allegedly a spy for the KGB, who allegedly did significant harm to American national security, including causing the deaths of two American agents in the [CIA].
Secretive and conspiratorial organizations are exceptionally vulnerable to infiltration and takeover by other secretive conspiratorial groups. This led to a peculiar situation among the numerous little trotskyist factions where each Trotskyite secret caucus contained an inner secret caucus controlled by yet another Trotskyite secret caucus hostile to the first secret caucus, and even though nothing much was at stake other than the official line to be upheld in pamphlets no one read, they invested huge energies in ever more complicated plots and counter plots, infiltrations and counter infiltrations. It is entirely plausible that KGB has infiltrated Opus Dei, and Opus Dei has infiltrated the KGB, and both have probably infiltrated the CIA and FBI, who are also probably spying on each other. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG HRVDSQcQMqXMmVAdeNvKnjyQDLdYEzvF/tRARKPW 4oW4SaHwDYcOMCVOHMpxvwPz6BuduEKno+YOKsY2z