What A Long Strange Trip It's Been
" . . . these same secret societies are behind it all," my father said. Now, Dad had never spoken much about his work.
You see, my Daddy was a — spy.
He entered into the "intel" world in the late thirties, later, he was OSS and G-2. During the early fifties he was the CIA's Branch Chief, Head of East Asia Intelligence Analyst Office. I spoke Dutch and Malay before English, whilst my family accompanied my "businessman" father to Indonesia in the early 1950s. That my father had worked for the government was no secret, but it just wasn't everyday conversation.
So one day, when my dad sat me down, I had very little to relate to when he very soberly and in rapid succession told me, "the Vietnam War is about drugs" and "these secret societies are behind it."
He then really laid one on me.
"Communism is all a sham, these same secret societies are behind it all."
"Hunh???"
I really couldn't relate. The only "secret society" I knew of was the Mafia and my teachers had been stuffing me under desks because the "commies" were going to bomb us. And since it was the sixties—and I was a teenager with my hair growing longer—I just tossed it off as my dad's way of having an anti-drug chat and went on with life.
Many years later I finally had some understanding of what my dad was talking about and—boy—do I wish I had asked some questions.
Like, was he was talking about The Order of Skull and Bones?
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