Jim,
I'm sorry, I don't know the case that well, but I don't think I was trying to give a watertight account of every case of elite treason ever, only a trend.
Do tell me more about Hannsen - did he just flip, was he making some weird point, or was he just in it for the money?
In message <20011230.100110.-1827921.0.farmelantj at juno.com>, Jim
Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes
>
>
>On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:15:00 +0000 James Heartfield
><Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> The WEEK
>> Ending 30 December 2001
>>
>> GOING NATIVE
>>
>
>>
>> Since the eclipse of the Soviet Union as an alternative faith for
>> the
>> disillusioned sons and daughters of the ruling elites, eastern
>> mysticism
>> has re-emerged - along with green anti-capitalism. To their
>> disappointed
>> elders it appears that 'fanaticism' has some special hold, but it is
>> the
>> yearning for belief in the West rather than any special qualities of
>>
>> Islam - or Bhuddism, or any other - that drives the converts.
>>
>
>What would Jim Heartfield make of the FBI agent Robert Hannsen,
>who was convicted of espionage for Russia and the former USSR?
>By all accounts, Hannsen was an extremely devout conservative Catholic,
>who belonged to Opu Dei, who was presumably against everything
>that the Soviet Union stood for.
>
>Jim F.
>
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