--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> >
> > > I wonder if anyone has ever tried to get the CIA reports on
> > Mahesh
> > > via the Freedom of Information Act? That would be interesting
to
> > see.
> > >
> > Interesting point- Prompted by your remark, I was searching both
the
> > Department of State and CIA websites just now for references to
TM,
> > Maharishi, and the Dalai Lama. Not much on TM- A couple of
> > references on the State Dept. website regarding relgious freedom
in
> > Austria and the Netherlands.
> >
> > Regarding the Dalai Lama:
> > From Questions Pertaining to Tibet (1969-1972)--
> > http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/70146.pdf
> >
> > "During the first Nixon administration (19691972), the U.S.
> > Government continued its decade-long support of the Dalai Lama
and
> > his followers, including political action, propaganda, and
> > paramilitary activity...
> >
> > Funds also were provided to the Dalai Lama for his propaganda
> > efforts ...This operation began during the second Eisenhower
> > administration(19571961) and continued through the Kennedy and
> > Johnson administrations...
> >
> > The total cost of the Tibetan program ...was approximately $2.5
> > million per year with $500,000 of that figure for non-guerrilla
> > political, propaganda, and intelligence operations.
> >
> > ...CIA Tibetan activities, utilizing followers of the Dalai
Lama,
> > have included in addition to guerrilla support a program of
> > political, propaganda, and intelligence operations."
> >
> > Interesting that Maharishi claims the CIA opposes him, but for
> > Tibetan Buddhists, the CIA was an ally.
> >
>
> Enemy of my enemy... Playing them off against China. And China is
STILL an enemy,
> according to the neocons. The most important long-term reason to
invade Iraq was to
> create military bases there in order to have a friendly place to
position American troops in
> order to bring pressure to bear on China, or so the PNAC white
paper, signed off by
> everybody who was anybody in the first BW administration, says,
including Brother Jeb.
>
I heard oil control as well to China, Europe and Japan.
