[Newspoetry] Ghosts or Guilty Consciences?

[Mike Lehman]

Makes you wonder what type of hideous, otherwordly beasts roam the halls
of the CIA.
Or maybe it is the Devil that the CIA works for?
Or, "looking for ghosts; too busy to figure out where the embassy of a
friendly country is located."
Comrade Mike

Nexus; New Times; Vol. 6, No. 3; April-May, 1999
The Twilight Zone, page 60
Haunted Headquarters Spooks British Spies!
The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has a problem on its
hands with claims that the new headquarters for the
Intelligence and Security Centre (ISC), the 850-year-old
Chicksands Priory near Bedford, is haunted by at least
nine spirits, including a nun called Rosata who was
entombed after being forced to watch her lover's
execution.  (The ISC is an all-services agency,
established in 1996 to coordinate covert intelligence
operations.)

After several sightings, unexplained laughter and
moving lights in unoccupied rooms, the MoD deployed
surveillance equipment and seismic sensors, but nothing
conclusive was records.

Brigadier Chris Holten, head of the ISC, appreciates the
irony of an intelligence agency being haunted by spooks.
He believes the apparitions are recordings of "traumatic
events imprinted in the fabric of the building."

Permission has been obtained for a new investigation -
involving ISC personnel using high-tech pressure sensors,
night vision recorders, infrared video, temperature and
movement sensors - to prove Brig. Holten's conviction
that there is a "spiritual element to the intelligence
business."

The Priory was used as a covert radio interception station
from 1936, and was taken over by the US Air Force from
1950 to 1995.  The following year, the ISC moved in . . . .
and the ghosts made their presence known.
(Source: Intelligence, no. 92, 25 Jan 1999)
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