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"You know," said Betty, again as much to Bob as to MT (as if this were the resumption of some ongoing interchange on the subject they conducted privately), "CIA or no CIA, I can't help but feel that there is something operating in these events that's very much psychic. I know that espionage agencies in the U.S. and Russia have been investigating psychic phenomena for years..." "It's probably advanced technology," Bob rejoined as if on cue, reinforcing the impression this was some ongoing amiable debate of theirs. "I think the government's got a hold of so much information in advanced technological research over the years, that they have HEALTH « AVRNT & neieee ied i nha : ot tawe ta the Salitiwe Pr Marsh Manse he Pence Ey goto Ss pyesmcat ta Wines te Tineter Dunston. Fivnwt Js Pbyatcs? é nailed Say things people would be deeply surprised about. I've no doubts that they've put that knowledge to work in terms of super—spy equipment..." The mild contention went on for awhile, almost an unexpected sendup of the American-t.v., Ozzie—and-Harriet marital tug—o—war that would be typically waged over the type of toothpaste, macabrely transposed to the topic at hand. "They're psychic in nature, dear," "no, they're technological in nature, dear," back and forth till MT deigned to interject that perhaps they were, indeed, really "two, two, two breathmints in one," a psychic ozone-slapper and a technological ozone-slappcr. This "resolution" seemed to satisfy them, or at least they graciously feigned some satisfaction till out of earshot of the interloper. MT was referring to the probable combination of the "two" factors in a higher—order technology which made no clear-cut distinctions between them. Indeed the several considerations as to the possible types of technology belonging to the world "shadow government", and that belonging to the "alien" visitors, converged upon this consistent observation re the peculiar admixture of the "two" modes of being. It was one thing, of 1 at c shrouded regions of the universe and of indeterminate history, the potential of having long mastered the unification of the standard dualisms belonging to our parochial viewpoint. It was quite another (given conventional sup— positions as to where we collectively stand in terms of frontier technology) to know how to 115 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm Imitation Designer Genes: Government Issue course, to grant unknown entities from