re: #580 Outrider

shoot. the State Department has never been apolitical. They have always gone to the left. Why? I don’t know.

Because WW2 ended so badly. While many nazis slithered away to the middle east, Saudi Arabia, South America, etc, many were actively “recruited” by the intelligence services of France, Britain, USSR, and the USA. The competition was fierce. Massive recruitment of remnants of the Third Reich by our own CIA, State Department, universities, corporations, etc was, for better or worse, a strategy of the cold war. And it shows.