GRGR(5) Katje and the Nazis

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy.  Tit for tat follows:

--- calbert at pop.tiac.net wrote:

> Mark Wright:
> 
> > b) Reference to SS, clear as a bell.  Clear as an azure sky of
> deepest
> > summer.
> 
> Not universally recognized, in spite of your insistence.

Yes it is.  I insist.

>  
> > c) Reference to OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which is
> > referred to directly later in GR (where I can't recall just now).
> This
> > is more obscure, but the linkage is intended, I think, to imply
> some
> > possible equivalence between the two organizations.  CIA = american
> > fascist pigs; very 60's.
> 
> Wish I had my Worlds Second Oldest Profession handy ( a great read 
> for those who want to learn about the relatively recent development 
> of national intelligence services) but as I recall the OSS was hardly
> 
> an established outfit, even late in the war. Individual branches of 
> the service had their own intelligence functions, and the effort to 
> consolidate them had mixed results. Will Bill Donovan was the guy 
> chosen to create a unified branch, which he set about trying to do 
> with the aid of one young Bill Casey.


>From Columbia Encyclopedia (is that an acceptable handy reference? 

"OSS, US World War II agency created in 1942 under the jurisdiction of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the purpose of obtaining information
about enemy nations and sabotaging their war potential and morale."

Sounds like they might be one of the shadows behind PISCES, no?  Might
pull a few of Pirate,s strings.  A few of Katje's even.  PUDDING can't
be in control....  I think MY reading looks stronger than YOUR reading.


> > d) Countering the reading of moral equivalence in c above, would be
> the
> > reading of the nested Ss within a circle as Yin/Yang, which implies
> SS
> > and OSS as opposites in balance in a universal order.  (This is a
> more
> > appropriate reading IMO)
> 
> I prefer the SS carved into the mountain. The SS was not an 
> intelligence outfit, that was the work of the Abwehr (sp) led by yet 
> another high minded Junker who despised his boss. When he was 
> discovered to have been a participant in the july 1944 plot, Hitler 
> had him strung up with piano wire, and the process filmed. I'm afraid
> that the OSS-SS link is extremely tenuous.

I respect your opinion, I just think you are wrong is all.  Think of
SS/OSS as another of  GR's mandala images if that helps.

Mark
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