From:    Diane Vera                             Area: THE_OASIS
To:      Vitriol                                 5 Apr 92 10:29:18
Subject: "Burdens" and "prisons"                Sent UpdReq 

Back on February 15, in a message to Numbersix "Re: BE SEEING
YOU...", you enthusiastically endorsed Numbersix's February 13
tagline, which read:
.       N >  "Questions are a burden to others; answers are a
       prison for oneself."
.Since you consider questions to be a "burden" and answers to be a
"prison", do not feel obliged to answer (or even read) this message
if you don't want.
.But I can't help wondering why you feel this way.
.I fail to see how questions are a "burden" except to people who
dislike thinking.  Of course, thinking and questioning, like any
other activities, can be carried to excess, at which point they can
become burdensome (and interfere with other, "nonlinear" mental
functions); but to me they certainly are not burdensome in
themselves.  They are a necessary and very helpful part of life, and
I enjoy them.
.As for answers being a "prison", I would say that an answer is a
prison only if one accepts it as final.  Answers are not prisons if
one remembers that our perceptions are never perfect, and that any
answer is only a step in the never-ending process of improving our
understanding of reality.


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From:    Diane Vera                             Area: THE_OASIS
To:      Steve Crocker                           5 Apr 92 10:31:02
Subject: Re: AQUINO (OR: WHY I AN MOT A SPOOK)  Sent UpdReq 

On April 4, you responded to my February 16 message to Tim Maroney
"Re: AQUINO (OR: WHY I AN MOT A SPOOK)":
.       SC >  In your message to Tim Maroney you ask for a
       reference for the US intelligence community's incorporation
       of Nazis after WWII.  One good reference which is on the
       shelves today in most stores which sell hardbacks is called
       "Unholy Trinity". It is co-authored by Aarons (sp?) and a
       second author whose name I forget.  It is primarily the
       story of how various networks in U.S. intelligence
       collaborated with networks in the Vatican to assist the
       covert emigration of Nazis from Europe after the war. It
       also has a fair amount of material on the use of Nazis by
       the intelligence community. Probably the best known of
       these is the "Gehlen (sp?) Org" led by Hitler's director of
       Soviet counter-intelligence Rudolph (?) Gehlen, but this
       book mentions other cases besides.  The case of Gehlen
       shouldn't be too hard to find documentation on.  A number
       of intelligence histories mention him.
.Thanks for the info.
 

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