| "Persona:  That which 
					in reality you are not, but which yourself as well as others 
					think you are ... in dreams it could appear as a
					scarecrow, a
					tramp or an
					empty field." 
					-- Carl Jung
 
 
					"[Scarecrow] I haven't got a brain ... 
					only straw." -- The Wizard of Oz, by
					L. Frank Baum (The French 
					Bomb)
 
 
					"When I saw him
					[Hitler] with my own 
					eyes, he suggested a psychic scarecrow (with a broomstick 
					for an outstretched arm) rather than a human being.” -- Carl 
					Jung
 
 
					
					"Stories such as Braden's -- and they are legion -- helped 
					to make Angleton a sinister and mysterious figure inside 
					the CIA, and in the tight social circles in Washington in 
					which he moved. His 
					nicknames reflected this. In the CIA, his agency pseudonym 
					-- used in cable traffic -- was Hugh Ashmead. But his 
					colleagues referred  to him variously as 
					"the Gray Ghost,"
					"the Black Knight,"
					"the Orchid Man,"
					"the Fisherman,"
					"Jesus,"
					"Slim Jim," or less flatteringly, "Skinny Jim," or
					"Scarecrow."  In the dull bureaucracy of  
					Washington, and even in the secret intelligence bureaucracy, 
					few officials had such colorful sobriquets." -- 
					
					Molehunt, by David Wise
 
					 
 
					Angleton was a poet, 
					or at least he had been deeply involved in  poetry at Yale, 
					an admirer of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and this  
					aesthetic side, combined with the enormous secret power he 
					wielded,  made him a unique figure in the CIA and added to 
					the ominous shadow he cast. For it was precisely this blend 
					of poet and spy, of art and espionage -- a craft with a 
					suggestion of violence always present just below the surface 
					-- that added to the hint of menace in Angleton's persona. 
					As a literary intellectual, he must have appreciated the 
					delicious dramatic irony that he embodied. [7] [7.  
					Pound, the controversial poet and Fascist sympathizer, was, 
					like Angleton, a native of Idaho. He moved to Italy in 1924, 
					and during World War II he broadcast propaganda, directed at 
					Allied troops, for the Mussolini government. 
					
					Indicted for treason and brought back to the United States 
					for trial, he was judged mentally incompetent and confined 
					to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington for twelve years. 
					He returned to Italy after his release and died there in 
					1972 at the age of eighty-seven.]-- 
					Molehunt, by David Wise
 
 
					
					 "[Rachel] Isn't it convenient for a 
		52-year-old man who has no history of mental illness to suddenly have a psychotic breakdown 
		just when he's about to be indicted?  ... He's drugged? [Crane] 
					Psychopharmacology is my primary field.   
					--
					
		Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan 
 
					"It always starts with 
					nonsense," Simon is telling Joe in another time-track, 
					between Los Angeles and San Francisco, in 1969. "Weishaupt 
					discovered the Law of Fives while he was stoned and looking 
					at one of those shoggoth pictures you saw in
					Arkham. He imagined the 
					shoggoth was a rabbit and said, 'du hexen Hase,' which has 
					been preserved as an in-joke by Illuminati agents in 
					Hollywood. It runs through the Bugs Bunny cartoons: 'You 
					wascal wabbit!' But out of that schizzy mixture of 
					hallucination and logomania, Weishaupt saw both the mystic 
					meaning of the Five and its pragmatic application as a 
					principal of international espionage, using permutations and 
					combinations that I'll explain when we have a pencil and 
					paper." -- 
					The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and 
					Robert Anton  Wilson
 
 
					"Four months after the 
					OSS closed up shop, Truman, on January 22, 1946, issued an 
					executive order setting up a National Intelligence Authority 
					and, under it, a Central Intelligence Group, which became 
					the forerunner of the CIA. The Authority's members were 
					Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Secretary of War Robert 
					P. Patterson, Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal and 
					Admiral Leahy. The Central Intelligence Group was the 
					Authority's operating arm. To head it, Truman selected Rear 
					Admiral Sidney W. Souers, the deputy chief of Navy 
					Intelligence. 
					
					Souers had been a businessman in St. Louis before the war; 
					the nation's first Director of Central Intelligence once 
					headed the Piggly Wiggly Stores in Memphis.
                    -- The Invisible Government, 
					by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross
 
 
					
					"The [FBI] agents appeared convinced that the 
					CIA harbored homosexuals. They kept coming back to that 
					subject. "The FBI asked about why there were so many 
					'queers' in the CIA's German stations in the early 1950s." 
					-- 
					Molehunt, by David Wise
 
 
					"Emerald City is the Gulf Coast's premier 
                    gay/high-energy dance bar." 
					 
					
					 
 
					"Around 1975, I was in a phone booth in Maryland somewhere, 
					when I saw a poster on a telephone pole about who killed JFK, 
					and it had a picture of the three tramps. I saw that picture 
					and I fucking -- like a cartoon character, my jaw dropped, 
					my eyes popped out of my head, and smoke came out of my 
					ears. It looks like my dad. There's nobody that has all 
					those same facial features. People say it's not him. He's 
					said it's not him. But I'm his son, and I've got a gut 
					feeling." -- The Last 
					Confessions of E. Howard Hunt, by Erik Hedegaard
 
					  
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