Newsgroup: it.scienza.ambiente
Titolo: Re: Very Literate OED

activities,
*   but for a "wide range of possible crimes."
%   The New York Times, Thursday, February 4, 1988
%   "Reagan Backs FBI Over Surveillance"
%   
%   President Reagan is satisfied that the Federal Bureau of Investigation
%   conducted a proper surveillance campaign against groups opposed to his
%   policies in Central America, the White House said today.
%   
%   The new FBI Director William S. Sessions assured Reagan that there was
%   a solid basis for the investigation: "We knew CISPES was established
%   from funding by the Communist Party, U.S.A."
Well, Reagan didn't like a peaceful Texas based group called CISPES, which
was against the United States' support of the El Salvador government.
The El Salvador government was torturing and killing people.
*   "Officers held in Salvador Abductions", By James LeMoyne, NYT, 4/25/86
*   
*   One of those arrested was accused of killing the head of the Salvadoran
*   Land Reform Institute and two AMERICAN agrarian advisors.
So the FBI had one of their agents infiltrate CISPES using a Frank
Varelli, who was born in San Salvador and served in the U.S. Army.
#   "How the FBI infiltrated CISPES and Assisted the Salvadoran Right Wing"
#   By James Ridgeway, The Village Voice, NYC
#   
#   Varelli met with the Salvadoran National Guard, best known for its
#   death squads. They gave him a "hit list" of people they wanted.
#   
#   When the INS stopped a Salvadoran immigrant, it would call the FBI and
#   check the name against the list.
#   
#   If the detained person's name was on the list, the INS would institute
#   deportation proceedings, opposing bail on "national security" grounds.
#   
#   Varelli would call the Salvadoran National Guard to let them know the
#   indiv

   Service has condemned Cummings to be with.
Wow.
Pretty heavy for taking batteries out of a dialer.
This outcome is ENTIRELY DUE TO THE SECRET SERVICE

Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision
*   
*   Infested by moles and potential defectors for more than twelve of its
*   first fifteen years, NSA managed the distinction of not only becoming
*   the most secretive and most hidden member of America's growing
*   intelligence consortium, but also the most thoroughly penetrated.
*   
*   
*   
*   The NSA began a McCarthy-type purge, and dozens of NSA employees
*   suspected of homosexuality were forced to resign or were fired.
*
*   Since then, any hint of homosexual behaviour resulted in either
*   the person's not being hired or, if the fact is revealed later,
*   being forced to resign.
*
*   Any man exhibiting the slightest effeminacy became an instant suspect.
*   The Office of Security was on full alert for limp wrists and telltale
*   lisps.
*   
*   During his security clearance polygraph test, Mitchell told his
*   interrogator about certain "sexual experimentation" with dogs
*   and chickens he had done when he was between the ages of thirteen
*   and nineteen.
*   
*   The Agency's Office of Security thought about it for a week, then issued
*   him his security clearance to work at the National Security Agency.
Parting shot #2
!!!   Congressional testimony of FBI informer Frank Varelli:
!!!   
!!!       "I was told that the Bureau wanted to get an apartment.
!!!       
!!!        So I could seduce the head of the CISPES group.
!!!       
!!!        Her name is Linda Hay and is one of the most outspoken
!!!        persons that I've known.
!!!       
!!!        FBI Agent Dan Flannigan wanted her filmed in a very
!!!        compromising position, or as he put it, `Once we do it,
!!!        we have her in our hand.'"
!!!       
!!!        Q: They wanted you to seduce a nun?
!!!        -----------------------------------
!!!       
!!!       "Yes. Yeah. The Bureau was going to provide an apartment
!!!        with cameras and you know...With sound equipment and
!!!