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...Bavarian mountain meadow. Then he waited for the American troops. Whisked to Washington, the archenemy of only a few months before convinced his conquerors that they should appoint him (and those files) as their primary espionage source against the Soviet Union. The Gehlen Organization, or simply the "Org," set up in what had been an SS model housing development, outside of Munich. To a number of recruits-ex-SS men and Gestapo agents may have run as high as 30%-it was just like home...
...layout cost the United States $3,000,000. During the decade that Gehlen worked exclusively for the CIA, another $200 million in American money funded the Org. By 1948 the Org numbered 4,000 agents and supplied an estimated 70% of the U.S. Government's information on the Soviet military. Once Gehlen had the idea of putting 432 simultaneous wire taps on East Berlin phones. New Jersey Bell Telephone supplied the switch board, courtesy of the CIA, at a total cost...
...curiously prone to infantile pranks like stealing, "nipping," and "blanketing," Hubbard is here to save us, but we must pay dearly for our salvation. Scientology equals Freedom, we are told; yet one must not only pay for processing, one must join the organization. Members of Hubbard's Sea Org (organization) are required to sign a billion year contract. Security Checks, recently abolished, used to be required before gaining access to upper level material. In the March 6, 1970 issue of the L. A. Free Press, former Scientologist William Burroughs mentions his twenty-three hour ordeal of a Security Check, carried...
...nightingale. Poetry obliged to make "civil sense" will sometimes make strange noises. In one passage, Yevtushenko remembers, "The ascetic-faced PartOrg said to me . . ." But how can a poet deal with a "PartOrg" (Party Organizer) in any language? The poet himself, alas, must become part poet and part org...
ABSENCE OF A CELLO erupts with steady laughter as an academic scientist tangles with an org man from corporation land...