--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry, but this is such bullshit I have > to speak up. Anyone who was an activist back > in the late 60s and early 70s might have > suspected that *some* US government agency > was monitoring their efforts, but almost no > one (except, seemingly, Judy Stein) was crazy > enough to believe it was the CIA. > > You see, back then (and now, although now the > lines have been blurred by the Reagans and > Bushes) the CIA was forbidden by law from > investigating anything that was taking place > in the United States. It *had* to concern > itself with things going on outside the > country. The FBI and the NSA handled internal > security matters in the U.S. All of us who > were activitists knew this, and so the thought > that we were being monitored by the CIA would > *never* have occurred to us. T'would seem > that Judy missed that particular civics lesson > during her paranoid 70s. :-)
I think alot of people use the word CIA when speaking about any type of spying conducted by the US gov't, not distinguishing between CIA, FBI, NSA and the host of other agencies that have intelligence offices. The Church Committee held hearings in 75 revealing a host of illegal and unsavory spying activities by the US govt, including the CIA. This is another reason I doubt US govt spying on TMO after 76 - first the Church hearings was pretty successful in reining in dometic spying activities, and 2nd the TMO was already in decline in its influence Remember in the mid 70s, over 30,000 per month learning TM in the US; MMY on the cover of Time magazine; MMY and A-list celebrities on national TV; TM research in 1st tier science publications. Today, a cult-film director getting a room of students is considered big PR - Related issues: Why MMY hated Carter and blamed him for spying, but loved Reagan. MMY and TMO tendency to blame all failures on outside influences. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
