Monday, November 22, 2021

Where In The World Is Izabella Kaminska?

She's been sending short messages and the signal seems strong, 5x5.

And she appears to still be an avid reader of the Financial Times.

Ms Kaminska's Twitter home.

As a side note, I was always partial to "Wilderness of Mirrors" from T.S. Elliot's 1920 poem Gerontion:

...These with a thousand small deliberations
Protract the profit of their chilled delirium,
Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled,
With pungent sauces, multiply variety
In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do,
Suspend its operations...

 

Which term the CIA's counter-intelligence czar, 1954 to 1974., James Jesus Angleton purloined and which trap he fell into:

...Angleton came to suspect Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who commented wryly that even the most brilliant and loyal officers should not spend their entire career in such pressurized and paranoid fields. Angleton also privately accused numerous members of Congress and President Gerald Ford of treason. Angleton's notorious pursuit of the "5th Man," who he believed had penetrated a secret agency in Washington, was solved, he believed, when DCI William Colby fired him. No one was above suspicion, and even Angleton himself was accused by others of working for the Soviets. (Wikipedia)
Oh well, by the end of his time as a spy Angleton was pretty far gone, probably certifiable.

Maybe we'll stick with Hall of Mirrors.