In a weird twist to the Robert Hanssen story, I was surprised to read in the New York Times that Hanssen was a member of the secretive, right-wing, catholic organization Opus Dei (God’s Work). I’ve read some weird conspiracy stuff about Opus Dei. One thing was a purported coverup of the murder of Princess Diana. According to this theory, the wife of French president Jacques Chirac used her Opus Dei contacts to cover up the assassination of Diana. I’ve also heard of Opus Dei in conjunction with the Calvi affair which is definitely worth a read. Roberto Calvi’s body was found on June 18, 1982 dangling from an orange rope under Blackfriars Bridge in London, England. His pockets contained pieces of brick and rocks and $15,000 in various foreign currencies. The Calvi affair is too complicated to go over here and honestly I don’t understand the whole thing myself. But read that link. Awhile back on Napster I found a spoken word piece by Robert Anton Wilson regarding the Calvi murder.
Oh, I almost forgot. Louis Freeh is also a member of Opus Dei, one of the few in the Clinton administration. Supposedly, during the Reagan administration many Opus Dei members were brought into various positions in the government. This might be why Freeh seems to get along so well with the Bush administration. He’s already got the right-wing credentials. The Bush’s are no strangers to elite secret societies. Both big and little Bush are well-known members of the Skull & Bones fraternity. And, Prescott Bush had ties to the OSS (The precursor to the CIA) and his son, George H.W. Bush ran the CIA for some time. In a related situation, Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker (Dubya’s grandfathers) operated banks and shipping companies that were later declared by the US Congress to be fronts for the Nazis. In 1942 shortly after the US entered WWII the assets of these Wall Street companies were seized by the US government under the Trading With The Enemy Act. This stuff will make you think twice about things.