This is for whoever is nursing a misplaced anxiety about my possible affiliation and frantically conducting searches into it…

NO. I am not now, nor have I ever been, nor plan to be, a CIA agent, flunky, or stooge…(well, on that last — one can never tell. It’s possible I’ve posted articles which were concocted as disinformation, but if so, that would be pure error and I probably mentioned somewhere that I wasn’t sure about the authenticity of the information – I usually don’t touch topics where I can’t tell if what’s going on is staged…)

The closest I got to the CIA was at a dinner party two years ago, when I met the former head of the psychic research division at the CIA. (There was one…it was shut down, so they say…more on that at another time).

We had a lengthy conversation about the CIA, Aurobindo, and mind-body research. I still get circulars from the outfit he runs now which develops forecasting systems for business. He’s an engineer and fighter pilot, who builds planes in his spare time – but we share interests in Rudolph Steiner and philosophy.

So much for the Mata Hari thing. Besides that, I’ve worked in India (for a couple of months) for a Christian aid organization (World Vision) – helping with promotional material for potential donors to medical care for the poor. I mention it because I’ve read that some Christian mission and aid organizations have ties with the CIA. But, if there were any moles sniffing around, I didn’t know any of them.

As anyone who follows this blog would know, any espionage or terrorist organization who tried to recruit me would be shooting itself in the foot – as big- mouthed as I am.

I’d probably be blogging the whole thing…