Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Everything You Need To Know About the CIA, But Were Afraid To Find Out

From the Belmont Club:

The suspected Cuban spy in the State Department was lobbying to become the US envoy to Northern Ireland according to the Telegraph, perhaps aiming to tilt US policy toward the IRA. But the fun wouldn’t end there. At the conclusion of his service to Cuba, accused spy Kendall Myers planned to “sail home” to Cuba in order to become “a real and present danger” to the United States. His worst was yet to come. TheTelegraph reports ...

His external appearance was anything but threatening. Former colleagues of Myers at State described him as a likeable person who was quick with a nautical story.

Mr Myers was a beloved figure in the State Department. “He seemed like an absent-minded professor with a scholarly view of the world rather than being involved in espionage,” said one former colleague.

“Kendall was anti-Bush but 90 per cent of the people in this building are too. 

He seemed to have a romantic view of the world and he wasn’t interested in promotion. He cared more about what he did rather than where he was. “He was kind, he always helped people out and he had lots of friends. He was like a jovial character out of an English book, always having a fun sailing story. …

In his doctoral thesis, he argued that Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasing the Nazis was correct.

Years later, he would tell students of his admiration for Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess – members of the “Cambridge ring” who betrayed Britain by spying for the Soviets.

5 comments:

christian soldier said...

“Kendall was anti-Bush but 90 per cent of the people in this building are too. ...

Bush was a moderate as Pres...does that mean that the CIA could be anti- Patriot- anti-Conservative at a higher percentage rate?!!!
They have the technical ability to monitor citizen activity?!
Scary...
C-CS

Pastorius said...

Yes, I think that is what it means.

That's kind of why I titled this piece the way I did.

It is, indeed, frightening.

Anonymous said...

"He seemed to have a romantic view of the world"


As do most 'scholars' of utopian 'isms' . . .fascism, socialism, communism . . .etc.

Pastorius said...

Right.

And, they quite literally do have a Romantic view of the world, a la Rousseau and Nietzsche.

Anonymous said...

Coincidentally, jillosophy posted the following quote of the day:

H.L Mencken : The Utopia of damned fools

"Of such sort are the wizards who now run the country. Here is the perfect pattern of a professional world-saver. His whole life has been devoted to the art and science of spending other people's money ... Such is government by the Brain Trust. Such is the fate of the taxpayer under a Planned Economy. Such is the Utopia of damned fools ... Of such sort are the young wizards who now sweat to save the plain people from the degradations of capitalism, which is to say, from the degradations of working hard, saving their money, and paying their way. This is what the New Deal and its Planned Economy come to in practise--a series of furious and irrational raids upon the taxpayer, planned casually by professional do-gooders lolling in smoking cars, and executed by professional politicians bent only upon building up an irresistible machine. This is the ... inspired substitute for constitutional government and common sense."
-- H.L. Mencken, writing in the 1930s about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's socialist/fascis


HRW