Long In The Making
At first, I was going to send out the quote, below, with perhaps just a brief comment Linking the article providing some background.
But I thought better of that. Combining the quote with excerpts from the article, one gets a much better perspective on how The Agenda has been rolled out, gradually, for a very long time.
For another time, the subject of how putting chemicals in our food, air, and water, has facilitated and accelerated The Agenda.
First, the quote:
What will exist is a variety of alternative life-styles. Since the population explosion dictates that childbearing be kept to a minimum, parents-and-children will be only one of many "families": couples, age groups, working groups, mixed communes, blood-related clans, class groups, creative groups. Single women will have the right to stay single without ridicule, without the attitudes now betrayed by "spinster" and "bachelor." Lesbians or homosexuals will no longer be denied legally binding marriages, complete with mutual-support agreements and inheritance rights. Paradoxically, the number of homosexuals may get smaller. With fewer over-possessive mothers and fewer fathers who hold up an impossibly cruel or perfectionist idea of manhood, boys will be less likely to be denied or reject their identity as males.
-Gloria Steinem,
"What Would It Be Like If Women Win". Associated Press. August 31, 1970
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Once with The Agency, always with The Agency. Like its cousin, La Cosa Nostra. Rare are those who leave, bite the hand that once fed, and enjoy longevity.
The article, relatively brief excerpts below, is well worth reading in its entirety. And consider adding Paget's book to your collection.
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Suppose you directed taxpayer dollars through back channels, disguised as gifts from private benefactors and foundations, to organizations that operated internationally, and that reached out to groups in other countries in the name of the principles you believe in. You would want to be sure that the people running those organizations either didn’t know where the money was coming from or could be trusted to keep it a secret. You might need to pull strings occasionally to get the right people in charge and the right positions enthusiastically adopted.
Wouldn’t that be like creating fronts? Sort of. But here’s the thing: fundamentally, everyone would be on the same page. They just might not be knowingly on the same page. No one would be forced to do or say anything. After you succeeded in stripping your rival of its superpowers, there would no longer be a need for secrecy. Until that day arrived, however, national security might demand this tiny bite out of the principle of transparency. The only people who could object would be people who were already on the wrong side.
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"Patriotic Betrayal [:The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism]” is an amazing piece of research. [Karen M.] Paget has industriously combed the archives and interviewed many of the surviving players, including former C.I.A. officials. And Paget herself is part of the story she tells. In 1965, her husband, a student-body president at the University of Colorado, became an officer in the N.S.A., and, as a spouse, she was informed of the covert relationship by two former N.S.A. officials who had become C.I.A. agents.
She was sworn to secrecy. The penalty for violating the agreement was twenty years.
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One circumstance is the fact that a good deal of material is classified. Paget was able to fish up bits and pieces using the Freedom of Information Act. But most of the iceberg is still underwater, and will probably remain there. So there is sometimes an aura of vagueness around who was calling the tune and why.
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The person in charge [of the "Independent Research Service"] was the future feminist Gloria Steinem, who knew perfectly well where the money was coming from and never regretted taking it. “If I had a choice I would do it again,” she later said.