Mexico says only 22 VAQUITA porpoises remain

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20. OMGoodness!! That's a shame!

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I now understand but did not know that Greenpeace was also blacklisted. Wow! I supported GP too until I switched my support to SSCS who took a more aggressive approach saving whales.

Here's a contrasting OT story, as evidence to how agencies differ on security clearances:

My hubby worked 42yrs for NASA where, for most of the time, he had a secret security clearance. They ck'd everything which included illegally opening our mail (back during the cold war) - no care was taken to even hide it.

There was one incident during my hub's grad school days when a Russian gave a paper at a conference he attended. My hubby's major prof asked that he drive this Russia back to the university, a day's drive, and then take him for a 2-day tour. So, he did. Hub's spoke Russian, btw. In passing, I happened to mention our unusual guest to our newspaper-connected neighbor who then sent a reporter to the university. The reporter filed a story, including pics in our local paper. Two days later, when I happened to be home, one of those big black cars pulled up outside and 2 "suits" got out. Yep, it was a special interview. So, the gov't began a file on my dh prior to his NASA employment.
Happily, this didn't affect his being hired by NASA a yr later.

However, I'm sure the USCG HQ is much more full of hardcore wingers, than is NASA HQ, who lean only a bit to the right. (NASA physicists, on the other hand, tend to be democrats.)

It's sad that you had to be so carefully with authoritarian agencies.