Thank You for your input. I agree, and sense Americans are to near whisper level.
I am know at a lot of levels.
My daughter swore that our phones were tapped in OK when she was growing up. I was rabbidly anti-Slick Willie then and outspoken.
My father-in-law spent 40 years in the “weapons” industry. He told me that the FBI knew who I was, what I did for a living and in general about me. I never doubted the accuracy of that.
About 1 month before my father-in-law died I took him out to the plant for his last visit. It was an appreciation meeting for past managers in that industry. He had alzheimer’s and was in a nursing home then. (he was in nursing home less than 3 months before he died)
There is another story that goes with that, but at a later time. He was an old cold warrior, small man but one hell of a guy.