Decided to post here about Bill Ryan, rather than taking this other thread further off the beaten path.
Funny you mention that Aragorn. His former AFOSI buddy Richard Doty, who is famously a disinformation artist, is back in the news. As you know Doty was a central figure in Bill Ryan's Serpo space opera you invoke here. From the group calling themselves the "Team Of Five" guiding the story from behind the scenes, to Doty being pointed to as none other than the story's super secret "Anonymous" sources himself.
So I still find it utterly fascinating Bill has the cojones to openly ask the following sort of question, and this sort of thing is certainly worthy of continued study. I've read that shadowy Intel types like to show off publicly to each other like peacocks on how blatant of shit they can pull off without drawing undue scrutiny. If true, and it makes perfect sense, then this would be a textbook example:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...80#post1205880[*]What was Doty's actual role in the Serpo affair?