by Dan Wees | Mar 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“It is not virtue but vice that ties Mormons to the FBI. ‘It may seem strange’ that a religion so persecuted would end up ‘providing both the CIA and FBI with some of their best men,’ [Frances] Lang noted, but their affinity is not so hard to...
by Dan Wees | Mar 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Utah, because of all the returned [LDS] missionaries, leads the nation in the number of new recruits under the [FBI’s] language program.” “FBI Slips into a More Comfortable Image” Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News, 23 December 1984),...
by Dan Wees | Mar 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“There are dozens, perhaps hundreds of special agents of the FBI currently on the rolls and serving throughout the world who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I believe it is unfair to impugn them or their religion based on the activities...
by Dan Wees | Mar 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[The] CIA has a surprising number of Mormon Church members in its employ, and the fact that many of these men had spent two years in a Mormon mission in Latin America or the Far East is not overlooked by the CIA. A friend found himself back in the Mormon mission in...
by Dan Wees | Mar 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The plates could not have been used directly in the translation process. The Prophet, his face in a hat to exclude exterior light, would have been unable to view the plates directly even if they had been present during transcription. “A mental picture of the...
by Dan Wees | Mar 4, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[T]he whole Bible wrestles with the problem that a given external pattern may be approved by God at one time and not another. Thus it should pose no religious difficulty that Joseph’s seer stone of his youth was later applied to the higher use of inspired translation...
