Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!not-for-mail From: "cc" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Gaijin twice removed Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 06:13:34 +0900 Organization: BIGLOBE news user Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <73fde4f0.0407090554.8a47feb@posting.google.com> <94a6da7.0407120119.5cedb905@posting.google.com> <40F283CF.5090509@yahoo.com> <40f301bd$0$37789$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <73fde4f0.0407151016.5a158c5@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coosk210ds63.osk.mesh.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: bgsv5647.tk.mesh.ad.jp 1089932661 2513 211.13.11.132 (15 Jul 2004 23:04:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@mesh.ad.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:04:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:15586 "John W." wrote in message > Actually that's being an employee for an intelligence gathering > agency. That's vocabulary nit-picking, nobody has "spy" written on their pay-sheet. >If they aren't actively involved in the gathering of that > intelligence, they're not spies. I got the impression that they did a > lot of teaching and translating stuff, not actual spying. Analysts at > best. There may be one guy that puts the micro to tape the telephone conversations of Koizumi, another to listen and translate into Korean, another that lists all the conversations about a given topic to write the report and decide whose line they'll tape next...the 3 are "spying" in team. That's not like working for a press agency or a language school. My remark was particularly about the case of Jenkins, if he had just been a deserter and worked during 40 years as a translator/language teacher in Canada, US government would probably accept more easily to let him go. It seems they have pardoned most deserters that lived in exile in *normal* countries and had civilian jobs. I understand their attitude. But as US army still occupies Japan and they work together with Japanese army and secret services, it's sad if they cannot associate to take care of Jenkins in Japan. CC