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Article: Covert ops, Christian-style. (former CIA operative Mark Tooley now works for the religious right)(Watch on the Right)(Column)
- Article from:
- The Humanist
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Former CIA employee Mark Tooley, hired by the right-wing Institute on Religion and Democracy to attack the United Methodist Church's social agenda, launched a vitriolic charge against that church in a 1996 mailing to thousands of its members. He avoided sending his mailing to officials of the church; it was an attempt to influence the laity just ahead of the church's quadrennial conference in April.
Since its beginning in 1981, the IRD has again and again attacked the National Council of Churches, the World Council, United Methodists, and Pres-byterians. It has refrained from attacking churches with a right-wing agenda, such as the Southern Baptists and the Roman ...