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A friend of mine, the other day, shared his experiences of one very long career, in the above subject(s) with me, between fruit, cheese and one fine french liqueur. The scene is in the bar of Near Eastern Hotel,heavy as History itself.I quote: ///“”Do you want an example?Voila my 1st post: You know my position (MFA) was, up to last month(now in pension)telecommunication, as we use to call them back then(in ‘80s: my note). Once (in North Africa), the boss asked what’s the newspaper that I have on my desk. I told him. He said: “check if they write anything for this war, that's raging in south border of the X country, that we are posted". Indeed they had a section in page 3. And it was correspondance of the AFP.Every single mother f. day, Dimitri, he obliged me to write messages to Center, ‘copy paste’(no web in ‘80s), from that paper. Next week the same procedure, but now something new. He ordered: “you’re going to write according this newspaper” so and so. I protest politely: “Your Exc. the (my) paper is from Beirut and we are in North Africa. The articles from said paper belong to the jurisdiction of your colleague in Lebanon. And is diminishing our work here, because we’re saying to them(Center),in other terms, that we can’t gather anything at all in field (sur le terrain)”.His monumental answer:‘Mr. ‘Θ’, here I am with a very high salary & zero expenses,from my own pocket,with not even one local person, ready to speak for one million dollars, ‘cause nobody really know what's happening beyond this vast desert. Because as you are very well aware,here we are under dictatorship(s). And our friendly countries representations are closed down and you also very well informed which superpower we represent from our office. Who you wanna ask? Our local personnel is under constant & immediate threat of deportation (nationals of third countries) & instead of bringing tips, they’re giving clues about us & etc.Etc. So you want me to dictate you a message that: “if it wasn't ‘Θ’ and his newspaper that an Armenian, working in drilling sector, brings from Beirut, we are in the complete dark? If so,kiss goodbye the monthly bank installments, for the houses that we bought and try to live in the Central. You want to marry I know; so say what's your decision, you are the only one that connects me with our PM(with“eyes only"):I will follow your advice and you can stop giving me and translating from French, this damned newspaper and one day(tu pourras)you can write in your memories,not before, one thesis with the title:“The influence of telecom.experts in the transformation of the foreign policy of the nation”. What I did?”””.You continued sendingAFPcables,viaBeirut, toCentralService,I answered. “One point though:Armenian has overseas travel doc/nts, as you told me the other day, how's possible that he kept entering every time,since his country’s banned?Dimitri,you makeme laugh:next day,after the ban,he obtained Mexican passport,to be able to work in the oil company (name of the latter withheld)””.And secrets you are asking? No secret, even with 1 billion dollars.Press replaced the secret diplomacy and could helped resolving mysteries as the one later known as “Watergate". If this wasn't artificial too,he concluded///.Now that I'm thinking about:////Many years ago, I wrote down the opinion, for one similar question, of an American citizen and with this occasion. I’ll make it an answer. Not my own words:…..(answering to a friend's question: “do you feel any sympathy, as you watched Nixon finally go down?”)… “No & you have to remember for my entire life, Nixon has been a national boogeyman. I can not remember a time, when he was not around (my note:it's been reported that’s following JFK, with spooks, for'security reasons’: source) always evil,ugly,two decades of f….. people around. Whole Watergate chancre was one monument to everything he stood for:he's a cheap thug, congenital liar, punk who can't even pull off properly liquor store robbery without getting shot-busted:a gunselLyndon Johnson would have burned the tapes. He would have burn down everything. There would have been this huge wreck out of his ranch somewhere - killing, oddly enough, all his tape t/cians, the only2 Secret Servicemen who knew about it,his ex/ive flunky and the Presidential tapemeisters. He would have had a van go over a cliff, at a high speed, burst into flames & they'd find all these bodies, the weird collection of people who'd never had any real reason to be together, lying in a heap of melted celluloid, at the bottom of that cliff. Then Johnson would have wept-all of his trusted assistants: ‘Goddamn it, how could they have been in the same van at the same time? I did warned them about that'.”//.2nd half of‘70s,if I remember correctly,date of my notes.(Johnson's text is my own Quora question-answer too).Dimitris