BtZ42. Special Operations Executive, p. 5

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, I did try to indicate that in my last sentence. My 'wonderful' meant
in the naming. so I should have
phrased THAT better.

I do not want to ignore the reality outside of books.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> Don't want to play the party pooper, but when you consider that the NATO's
> secret stay-behind networks possibly were responsible for terror attacks
> like the one on the central railway station in Bologna or the one on the
> Oktoberfest in Munich, which both took place in 1980, I think you should,
> perhaps, refrain from calling the thing "wonderful".  There is a reality
> outside of books. I sometimes forget about this, too.
>
>
>
> On 21.03.2016 11:32, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
> I have never heard of this wonderful Pynchon-named thing.
> A--and, the Years of Lead!!!  righto ut of P's metal coded metaphors.
> Delightful, (In an aesthetic, world-ignoring way)
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
>> The SOE was also a forerunner of Operation Gladio:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
>>
>>
>> Am 18.03.2016 um 11:45 schrieb Mark Kohut:
>>
>>> was real, was an org not an executive and could be said to be The Firm
>>> as P uses it in GR.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://books.google.com/books?id=D4jtJgAACAAJ&dq=%22special+Operations+executive%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVu5ymhsrLAhVISCYKHZbKCtgQ6AEISDAF
>>>
>>
>
>
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