He became a big mystery. The amount of gaslighting around him was remarkable. No idea about his current life but he really stopped pretending at some point long before he officially quit. I cannot speak about his motives, but I would say that as with many, he started out OK and ended up completely and utterly corrupted. Anyone who became one of the high up officers would have been in that same position, mostly started off good but mostly then became complete bullies. You can thank SW for that type of training, but the senior guys supported this and taught it also. Such a totally deceived bunch. However, I can say one thing about Krause: he was offered ownership of some of the properties and rejected it. He could have taken them and sold them when SW died, but he did not. Not sure what that actually speaks to, but it is a fact. Not sure if that was of any help, sorry.

Thanks for that. Not sure how accurate the information that I was given is but it was my understanding he left Aus so as not to be implicated in all the SA stuff. So owning property in that country would have been complicated. I doubt he said no to it for ethical reasons and I doubt that he was left out of pocket. I do know that he renounced being executor of Scott's will (Donald was then the sole executor) but again, I presume that was to avoid returning to Australia. And yes, it's true that most senior officers were total and utter arseholes, but some still managed to retain some humanity. I always thought that although everyone in the CAI, myself included, did bad things and treated other people badly, there were around 3% who were just pure evil and who would have done exceptionally well in the 3rd Reich - Lars, Jan W., Andrew V. and Michael K. come to mind. The kind of men who would have claimed they were 'just following orders' at their Nuremberg trial. Andrew even wrote as much in his letter when he left.

I'm not here to stick up for MK or anything, but my take is that he bailed out of Australia a while before things actually went down legally for SW. Perhaps he had a hunch trouble was brewing. Or perhaps he just needed to get away from SW and start fresh. He got offered a shot at owning one of the Scottish properties, but he turned it down. I cannot say why. Most people got totally twisted up by fear, and probably fell into that whole "spirit's craving for envy" trap. The mind control eventually wears down most folks, and wanting power over others is just baked into human nature. Places like CAI basically hand you a playground for that kind of hunger to flourish. The handful who managed to keep their integrity intact? They deserve a Blue Peter badge. From what I've heard, Andrew still claims to this day that he was "just following what I was taught". Seems like it'd be way better to just own up to being a complete bastard and then ask people to forgive him. BTW, I'm not the original person who registered this account. I took over because I had some headaches with aimoo registration, and the original owner said I could use it. Shrug. We might actually know each other a bit.

And I was also a complete bastard at some point. I hate myself some days, and thank the Lord for his mercy on others.