What we have here, in all the material contributors have sent over the moths and years, in what I've written - what we have is an unenviable situation.
We've become harbingers of bad news and so we come to the prime directive for any army - mental health and combat efficiency.
I've used the word "diabolical" and some of you think that fanciful, hyperbole, too much bible bashing ... but it certainly begins to look that way to me - diabolical - and here is one reason:
How do you get someone to lose his or her mind, how do you irreparably wreck trust? How do you, if one of the global cultists, get people to fear absolutely everyone else, distrust, to the point we can no longer combine in any meaningful way?
In fact, the Paul Temple series is all about that. Was that a radio series for "the family" with all the bashings, murders etc. every few minutes, was it the BBC's idea of wholesome family entertainment? When you never knew who was friend, who was foe? My long book Masquerade was about that.
I'd say there was agenda even back then - in fact at any time post-war in practical terms.