Section the Third, pg.17-19

[Joseph Tracy]

I can think of very few cases where government spies have exposed criminal activity, but many where they tried to cover up such things. The role of revealing secrets in my lifetime has been taken up by investigative journalists, historians etc.. 2 exmples today from Democracy Now:
German Historian Says AP Cooperated with Nazi Regime
MARCH 31, 2016HEADLINES
A German historian has revealed the Associated Press cooperated with the Nazi regime in the 1930s and at times supplied U.S. outlets Nazi propaganda billed as news stories. The revelations are based on archival materials unearthed by historian Harriet Scharnberg. The documents show the AP signed onto a law promising not to publish anything to "weaken" the regime. Under the law, the AP also hired reporters who worked for the Nazi propaganda division, including a photographer whose photos were personally selected by Hitler. The Associated Press says it "rejects the suggestion that it collaborated with the Nazi regime at any time."

TOPICS:
	• Journalism
	• Germany

FBI, DOJ Launch Probe of Unaoil, After Exposé Shows Global Corruption
MARCH 31, 2016HEADLINES
The FBI, the Department of Justice and British and Australian authorities have launched a joint investigation into the Moroccan company Unaoil, which brokers contracts between governments and international oil service giants. This comes after The Huffington Post and Australia’s Fairfax Media published a multi-part exposé based on thousands of leaked documents showing how Unaoil paid million-dollar bribes to government officials in Iraq, Libya, Kazakhstan, Syria, Tunisia and other countries to broker contracts for some of the world’s largest companies, including Halliburton and its former subsidiary KBR. The exposé also shows how U.S. military contractor Honeywell colluded to conceal bribes in Iraq contracts. Reporters are calling it the biggest leak of files in the history of the oil industry.
> On Mar 31, 2016, at 6:12 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes -- spy stories, like crime stories, are highly projective & work out lots of half-hidden issues, psychological as well as ideological. I get most interested (per Conrad, Chandler, Greene, Ross Macdonald, John Le Carre) when the authors know that's what they're doing, and explore as well as exploit.
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> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:33 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Part of the deal for me is that we take SPIES too seriously, like Cops and Detectives. Pynchon is questioning that and it is really obvious that    he has a point because a lot of them are wacked out turds shat from the asshole of government paranoia.
> > On Mar 28, 2016, at 9:55 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >      And here we are introduced to our hero, Tyrone Slothrop, though he doesn't appear in person. Teddy Bloat, sent to spy on him, for reasons yet unrevealed, finds a desk, which results in a Plist (pun fully intended), littered with the slothful accumulation of "bureaucratic smegma". Everything from official documents pertaining to the war, to bits of tobacco and erasers and odd pieces of jigsaw puzzles, broken ukelele strings, all seem to be of equal importance, or lack of same, to our hero...
> >      Seems Teddy Bloat, whose ass was saved by the quick reaction of Pirate Prentice in the first section, is a spy, for whom we are not yet told, though it must be official, SHAEF sword hairbrushes and all. His old college friend, Lt. Oliver ("Tantivy") Mucker-Maffick (a name which seems to beg for multiple layers of interpretation), shares an office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG (I won't preach to the choir about the beauty of this acronym..), and must have mentioned Slothrop's soon to be infamous map....
> >    Multicolored stars labeled with women's names, coinciding with the locations of bomb disasters Slothrop's been sent out to investigate for ACHTUNG. What does it all mean?
> >    And, more importantly, to whom does it all mean anything?
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